Why Did They Become Muslims

How appalling! These abominable stories are rejected even by
some Christians. A 1977 issue of the magazine Plain Truth
contained an article purporting the following warning: “Be extra
careful as you teach the Holy Bible to your children! For there are
indecent stories of fornication in the Holy Bible. Children that
read these stories may develop some abnormalities concerning
relations between family members. These indecent stories, which
mostly appear in the Old Testament, must be discarded entirely
and children must be given a Holy Bible purged from such
impurities.” The magazine also adds that “The Holy Bible should
definitely be subjected to an analysis. Presently, it encourages
young people to immoral indulgences, rather than imbuing them
with high moral qualities.” Bernard Shaw, the well-known man of
literature, goes to an extreme in this subject. He is of the opinion
that “The Torah and the Bible are the most dangerous books of
the world. They must be locked in a strong safe lest they should
appear again.”
Dr. Stroggie, in his book about the Holy Book, paraphrases
from Dr. Parker: “When you read the Holy Bible, you lose your
whereabouts among a paraphernalia of inconsistent stories. The
Holy Bible embodies a myriad of strange names. Genesis,
especially, is more of a genealogical registration book. Who is
begotten from who, and how? And nothing else. Why should these
things interest me? What do they have to do with worship or with
loving Allâhu ta’âlâ? How can one be a good individual? What is
the Judgement Day? Who will call us to account, and how? What
should be done to be a pious person? There is very little reference
to these things. There are mostly legends of various sorts. Before
day is defined, night is being described.”
Prof. F.C. Burkitt’s views can be paraphrased as follows from
his book ‘Canon of the New Testament’: “There are four different
descriptions of Îsâ (Jesus) ‘alaihis-salâm’, one in each of the four
Gospels. They are quite different from one another. Those who
wrote them did not intend to bring the four Gospels together.
Therefore, each of them gives different information without any
relation with the others. Some of the writings are like unfinished
stories, and others are like passages taken from a well-known
book.”
As is pointed out on the five hundred and eighty-second page
of the second volume of Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics,
“Îsâ (Jesus) ‘alaihis-salâm’ did not leave behind him a written
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