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INTROSUCTION
course of a short discussion he examines the so-called rational mode of Christian missionaries (adopted in the Matupariksa) of sifting the divine character or otherwise of a particular creed and logically dismisses their conclusion that Christianity is a creed of divine origin. By way of furnishing an illustration of the
author's style, the arguments in this Sperimen of the
of the discussion may be noticed here briefly. Author's arguments
The veterans of Christianity lay down that a creed to prove itself to be of divine origin requires its original promulgator to be endowed with divine and supernatural powers such as have been observed by eye-witnesses, have been successfully tested by adrersaries and have been recorded by contemporary authors in their works; and they force the conclusion that their own religion is of divine origin since it satisfies all these requirements. However, our author denies a logical validity to the conclusion on the ground that no part of the premises can be established logically. How can we in the present age decide that Jesus Christ who flourished centuries ago was really endowed with divine and supernatural powers ? The statement that the so-called powers in the prophet had been marked by eye-witnesses and had been successfully tested by his adversaries cannot be accepted except on the evidence of the myths recorded in the New Testament. Are we to accept everything in that scripture as true ? If that be the case, where lies the necessity eren of the testimony of those myths since the desired conclusion can be dictated straight by the direct statements to the
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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