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50 Islam
There are in
the Quran many references
to our Lord Jesus Christ, but there is
practically no historic knowledge.
It must
be remembered that in Muhammad's time
there was no Arabic version of the Bible ;
he was therefore dependent for information
upon the Jews and Christians with whom
he came into contact. That he formed
conclusions upon very insufficient knowledge
is the terrible blunder of his life, of
which full use has been made by Christian
has not been made of
writers.
Enough
the responsibility of the church which
had
no better tales to tell, no truer account to
give, of their Lord and their Faith. The
Christianity presented
to this Seeker after
God was painfully inadequate to his need.
The little Muhammad discovered led to
his
acknowledgment of the Jewish and
Christian
books, which he had never read,
with reservations. It led also to a far
more important admission. The Jesus of
the Quran is denied Divinity,
but the