SURVIVAL OF ARABIC LANGUAGE

The Challenge of The Qur’an ~ 316 ~ months later, all of those young students accepted Christianity! What could have been the reason for his extraordinary response? Peter W. Stoner explains it is this way: “I was immediately faced with the problem as to what should be presented to a group of this type. Since these young men had no faith in the Bible, ordinary Bible teaching seemed useless. Then I hit upon an idea. I had noticed in my undergraduate work a very close relation between the first chapter of Genesis and the sciences, and decided to present this picture to the group. ‘The students and I naturally were aware of the fact that this Genesis material had been written thousands of years before science had any of its present-day knowledge and concepts regarding the universe, and the earth, and the life upon it. We realized that many of the teachings of people back in the days of Moses and for thousand of years thereafter were very absurd when looked at in the light of modern knowledge available also to this group of students. Nevertheless, we “tackled” the subject with a will.