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Protestants themselves admitted the fact that the councils, that
is, the clerical assemblies, who had been looked on as inspired
with the Holy Spirit and whose decisions had been considered the
basis of Christianity by all Christians for twelve hundred years,
had been agreeing in error and aberration. Nevertheless, they
accepted many of the quite unreasonable and inadmissible
decisions of those councils. Thus they took an unprecedented
course that was based on contradictory principles. What a
surprising event it would be for millions of discreet Christians to
look on a religion whose essense is covered with doubts and
uncertainties as a means of happiness and salvation, alluring the
hearts towards itself; one would bite one’s finger with
astonishment.
Christians obtain the principles of belief both from the Old
Testament and from the New Testament. These books are not
free from doubts and hesitations. Neither of them has been
proven to have survived to our time through a sound document. In
other words, they have not been transmitted through a series of
true people from Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ to our time. As is known, a
book’s authenticity and heavenliness, that is, its admittance as a
book revealed by Allâhu ta’âlâ depends on an authoritative
declaration such as, “This book has been written (revealed)
through Prophet so and so and is free from being changed or
defiled and has reached us by being transmitted through sound
documents and true people.” Unless this is firmly documented to
people with common sense, doubts and hesitations concerning the
book in question will not go away. For, a book that is attributed to
a person considered to be endowed with divine revelations will
not prove by itself the fact that it has been arranged by that
person himself. Nor will a few Christian groups’ claims, based on
sheer bigotry and zeal, suffice to prove the book’s validity.
Christian priests do not have any documents to prove the
soundness of their Holy Bible, except that they attribute it to one
of the past Prophets or Apostles. These claims of theirs are not a
proof persuasive enough to lay down the principles of belief
[îmân] or to remove doubts as to their authenticity. No one who is
wise enough would feel safe and peaceful if his religion, which
would guide him to comfort and peace in this world and save him
from torment and take him to eternal felicity in the next world,
were based on precarious essentials. As a matter of fact,
Christians deny and reject most of the books in the Old
Testament and more than seventy of the New Testament books
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