THE BOOK

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Now, from the Christian outlook –- the Bible scholars, Christian Church ‘leaders’, and Ph.D.-toting theologians; yes, all you erstwhile, “learned scholars”; that sequence of Scripture should never have been subject to the debate and uncertainty that has scribed the passage of it for hundreds of years. Why is that? Well; it is because that great spiritual scholar -– Paul the Apostle -– has explained it to you for 2,000 years now, and you haven’t recognised it, and therefore cannot find any clear understanding of what Jesus was really saying.

So, let’s elucidate this supposed “mystery” and strongly reinforce the salient points of it so that, hopefully, someone, somewhere, in the great Christian melting-pot of “experts all”, a glimmer of understanding might finally shine through your rock-solid wall of stubbornness and ego. Setting aside for the moment Islamic condemnation of the ‘Sonship of God’; for Christians, here is your answer.

In terms of the Scripture: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now...”: Due to humankind’s spiritual immaturity at the time, the consequential inability to receive The Truth fully from Jesus meant that the writings of those who were closest to Him --- His Disciples --- are incomplete with regard to the whole that, inherent in the Divine Personage of Jesus, He brought to earth at that time. The obvious ramification that such an assertion must logically presume is that the Bible, therefore, does not contain the whole. (Muslims will strongly assert that the Koran fulfils that role.)

The Apostle Paul provides the relevant insight in his ‘Letter to the Corinthians’. Here, now, is one of the crucial, salient points. We should carefully note that the words of Paul were written after the Crucifixion, and after the Outpouring which, according to probably most Christian “scholars”, was the watershed event that would lead them [the Disciples] into “all-Truth”: Thus, the time that Christian scholars generally believe Jesus sent The Holy Spirit.

So, the Church broadly accepts the Outpouring of The Holy Spirit at Pentecost as the fulfilment of a key prophecy of Jesus i.e., “...to send the Helper, the Comforter, The Spirit of Truth after His departure”. Here is another crucial, salient point: Jesus is recorded as stating, however, that The Holy Spirit “...will reprove the world of sin”. The word, ‘reprove’, clearly means to reprimand, to admonish, to reproach.

The Outpouring of The Holy Spirit, however, has not resulted in this event even two thousand years later. It therefore unequivocally refers to that which this specific Discourse addresses. It refers to the Coming of The Spirit of Truth/The Holy Spirit in this present era --- our time! And whether you in “Christian academia” believe that or not is totally irrelevant.

Notwithstanding the obvious Spiritual Power that must have been experienced by those present at “The Outpouring” at Pentecost, in 1 Corinthians 13:9-10 King James Version (KJV), Paul nonetheless states very clearly:

Fenton translates the same passages thus:

And The Jerusalem Bible says:

Simple logic must lead us to the obvious conclusion; that Paul could not have been referring to Jesus Himself as the “part” or the imperfect, for He, Whose Origin was from out of “The Divine”, was complete in Knowledge and Perfection. Throughout Paul’s Ministry, nothing to the contrary was ever so stated by him. From the Christian perspective, it would be ludicrous to try to argue that the Teachings of Jesus --- as The Son of God --- could be done away with, become useless, or disappear. Paul certainly knew that, as did the Disciples. For Matthew (24:35 Fenton, parenthetic addition mine) records Jesus stating in admonishing warning that:

As previously examined, theologians and Bible scholars could be forgiven for believing that The Outpouring was, after all, the event where The Holy Spirit gave the “complete and perfect”, the actual All-Truth, to the Disciples. For the strength of the happening was such that they all ‘spoke in tongues’ and became ‘seeing’. However, a simple analysis of it all points to a very different conclusion; a conclusion that Paul understood quite clearly. Therefore, if Jesus was not “the part” --- and He surely was not the imperfect --- then Who or what was Paul referring to? Who, therefore, would bring the Perfect, and when?

Once again from the Christian perspective only --- for what we are writing here would surely be anathema to Muslims, and of course to Judaism --- the answer lies in the following Scriptures given by Jesus in reply to questions from His Disciples regarding the End-Time. The singularly-strong aspect here is the clear statement that The One to Come would instruct in All the Truth, meaning that Jesus had not done so. In other words, what He was able to give for that particular point in human spiritual evolution and have it at least basically understood, was just a part of the whole, not the complete thing. In necessary reinforcement, this is so stated in John 16:12:

“I have still much more to tell you; but you are not able to bear it.”

So even though instructed by The Son of God Himself to a far deeper level of knowledge than certainly all other human beings to that time, the greater degree of understanding that humankind still required could not be imparted to the Disciples then. It was simply too much for them to understand or assimilate. Therefore another, The Other, would have to come and bring all The Truth.

The clear inference in all of these Scriptures is that the use of the personal pronoun, He, denotes an actual person in the same way that Jesus was an actual person. And, moreover, would be The One Whom Jesus would send, but only after His [Jesus’s] own departure.

Now: The “Second Coming of Christ” has been “accepted” as a non- negotiable event for centuries by virtually all Christian ‘groups’. The ostensible sureness of that happening as espoused by Global Christendom, however, is clearly thrown into question if we assess particular Scriptural statements brutally-objectively. For if ‘The Other’ is to ‘Come’ -– the word-concept if only being used for the purposes of this immediate discussion -– such a crucial event must ultimately shake the very foundation of all religions and all science. In fact, it would impact on every facet of what it means to be a human being resident in Subsequent Creation at this time. And whether one is on earth or passed from it would be irrelevant.

The quandary for the global Christian community of if/should/when centred on the ostensible return of Jesus without any thought or belief of a Coming of ‘The Other’, presupposes the probability that Christianity/humankind, in general disbelief anyway, will ignore it --- exactly as has occurred --- and instead continue to embrace totally different and therefore completely wrong concepts --- exactly as has occurred.

Under the aegis of simple and brutal Truth and Logic, the end result will not now be as Christians, particularly, might have hoped or imagined. What must eventuate at its ordained time at “the end of [our] age” will be: “The Great Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth” for countless millions. (Matt. 13:49-50)

In a nutshell, the ramification of Paul’s “understanding” is clear enough: Though anathema for millions of Christians, the fact is that the Bible does not contain all of the Truth. Muslims, of course, will naturally endorse that notion because, in stark contrast and in their determined belief, only the Koran holds that ‘exalted’ position. Now whilst we can infer that from all Muslim belief as a generality, M.M. Ali provides more specific ‘reasoning’.

To summarise this difficult and probably pointless “mission” thus far: In the Introduction we strove to provide a clear and logical “introductory- foundation” for the various, essential, Discourses that will feature in this Work. Whilst the key aspect --- The Spirit of Truth --- was necessarily highlighted strongly in that Introduction, individual Discourses will naturally offer more information, commentary, and “Revelation” on many more topics aside from just our fundamental one. To that end, everything we examine and assess from this point on will ultimately thread back to The Spirit of Truth and His “All- Truth”!

So apart from the three monotheistic religions, this Discourse will also track through the basic beliefs of a number of other religions and cultures that also feature the “Coming” of a “Spirit of Truth”.

Let’s once more reinforce --- primarily for Muslims this time -– the truly bizarre thing in this “Ownership battle” that really taxes the notion of “religious-logic” or reasoning. In a singularly-curious “Revelation” regarding that specific “Coming”, the principal text about it --- from John 16 in the Bible --- is arguably the main factor that ostensibly provides some form of ‘legitimacy’ for the religion of Islam in its declaration that the Koran is the ‘All Truth’ and Mohammad was the “Spirit of”.

In fact, it could be argued that without that Biblical Scripture, how else could Islam make such a claim?

Whilst the advent of this particular and decisive “Coming” is written in the lore of many religions and cultures besides the “big three”; in order to fit the religion of Islam and have Mohammad as that ‘entity’, a prophecy about it would have to be so strong that its validity, its “spiritual authority”, is beyond question.

Islam in this case curiously accepts the Bible –- the “Book” so vociferously denigrated in many places in the Koran --- and Chapter 16 of the “Book of John” to legitimise its claim as the “only true religion”. So: In the “English-language vernacular” of the Koran itself:

Truly, is that not the strangest paradox ever?

We shall state it again: Only with clear reference to an ‘all-encompassing and pervading Absolute Truth’ can any religion ever hope to assert its ostensible ascendency over all others. Yet Islam, in the strangest “religious twist”, claims that famous John 16 prophecy as its own. So, precisely in “the strangest paradox ever”; in that religion’s determination, from a belittled and maligned Book, and uttered by One deemed a “Prophet” only --- just the ‘son of Mary’ -- does Islam claim that so-called “right”.

Without the Bible’s “Book of John” and the Apostle’s record of the prophecy of Jesus, Islam’s sole-right declaration to be ‘the only religion for the world’ --- as Koranic scholars put it -– would seem to possess no real legitimacy.

Despite those scholars quoting other ‘sources’ that allegedly support that Islamic validity, the Bible is nonetheless the key source quoted in Islamic commentary to validate the “claim”. Yet to possess ultimate legitimacy as the “top religion”, it must absolutely have also to claim all of the Truth. This is like a carousel. We could argue with claim and counter-claim, but the blunt truth is exactly as we have outlined it. Thus:

In terms of just simple, everyday logic, does the Muslim world not understand the brutal logic of what is “revealed” here?

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