ISLAM

CHRISTIANITY VIS-A-VIS ISLAM 33
this kind of thinking is quite alien to the Moslem
mind; it does not attract him to Christianity;
it does not illuminate his mind with regard to
the Christian idea of God and Christ. It does
terribly confuse his mind, and confirms him in
his suspicion of Christianity. It is no wonder
that the present-day Moslem writers have ridiculed
this as a relic of the intellectual jugglery
of the Middle Ages. We must modify our statements
with regard to God, and find a new way
which will dispel the misunderstandings in the
Moslem mind with regard to the Christian idea
of God, and clarify his thought."*
In the third place :
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In the presentation of Christianity in the past, it
has been a mistake to emphasise the mysterious
and the supernatural to prove the truth of the
Christian revelation. We have tried to prove the
truth of the Bible by emphasising the mysterious
and the supernatural in it. This never convinces
the Moslem with the old mentality, because the
Orthodox Moslem himself resorts to that same
method of the mysterious and the supernatural
in proving the truth of his book and his Prophet.
The Moslem with the new mentality is also never
satisfied with it, because he protests against
comprehended by human
everything that is not
reason. The supernatural has been a stumbling
block to his accepting the truth." *
Vide Moslem Mentality.
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