Why Did They Become Muslims

Now let us quote some vague passages from the Torah and the
Bible: “And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man,
named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto
him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.” (Matt: 9-9)
Now, let us think well: Supposing the person who wrote these
statements were Matthew himself, why did he relate the incident
through a bystander’s mouth instead of speaking for himself? If
Matthew himself were the author of the Gospel concerned, he
would have said, for instance, “As I was sitting at the receipt of
custom, Jesus passed by. He saw me and told me to follow him. So
I followed him.” This shows that Matthew is not the author of the
Gospel of Matthew.
“FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in
order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed
among us,” “Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the
beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;” “It
seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all
things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most
excellent The-oph’i-lus,” (Luke: 1-1, 2, 3)
This wording indicates that:
Luke wrote this Gospel at a time when many other people
wrote Gospels.
Luke points out that there are no Gospels written by the
Apostles themselves. By saying, “Even as they delivered them
unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and
ministers of the word;” Luke observes a distinction between the
Gospel-writers and the eyewitnesses, i.e. the Apostles.
He does not profess to be a disciple of one of the Apostles. For
he does not hope that a document of that sort, i.e. claiming to be
an Apostle’s disciple, will win others’ confidence in his book,
especially in his time when the country is awash in compositions,
writings and booklets ascribed to each of the Apostles. Perhaps he
prefers to say that he in person examined the facts from the
original source because he thinks this kind of documentation
would sound more authentical.
“And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he
knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.” (John: 19-35) If
John himself had written this verse, he would not have said, “... he
that saw it bare record, and his record is true.”
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