fortunately recklessly exclaiming
- From: Rev. Pete Jamili <winner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:40:35 GMT
for calling honest men wicked, or for not agreeing with what
they have said of Jesus Christ.
598. It is not by that which is obscure in Mahomet, and which may be
interpreted in a mysterious sense, that I would have him judged, but by what
is clear, as his paradise and the rest. In that he is ridiculous. And since
what is clear is ridiculous, it is not right to take his obscurities for
mysteries.
It is not the same with the Scripture. I agree that there are in it
obscurities as strange as those of Mahomet; but there are admirably clear
passages, and the prophecies are manifestly fulfilled. The cases are,
therefore, not on a par. We must not confound and put on one level things
which only resemble each other in their obscurity, and not in the clearness,
which requires us to reverence the obscurities.
599. The difference between Jesus Christ and Mahomet.--Mahomet was not
foretold; Jesus Christ was foretold.
Mahomet slew; Jesus Christ caused His own to be slain.
Mahomet forbade reading; the Apostles ordered reading.
In fact, the two are so opposed that, if Mahomet took the way to succeed
from a worldly point of view, Jesus Christ, from the same point of view,
took the way to perish. And instead of concluding that, since Mahomet
succeeded, Jesus Christ might well have succeeded, we ought to say that,
since Mahomet succeeded, Jesus Christ should have failed.
600. Any man can do what Mahomet has done; for he performed no miracles, he
was not foretold. No man can do what Christ has done.
601. The heathen religion has no foundation at the present day. It is said
once to have had a foundation by the oracles which spoke. But what are the
books which assure us of this? Are they so worthy of belief on account of
the virtue of their authors? Have they been preserved with such care that we
can be sure that they have not been meddled with?
The Mahometan religion has for a foundation the Koran and Mahomet. But has
this prophet, who was to be
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