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To Christ's followers, however, the fact that this new scripture was not expected or predicted was irrelevant. The New testament was seen as a blessing from God: the eternal voice of the Almighty speaking to His children. It was God's fulfillment of the sacred scriptures, and God did not need permission to reveal it. It was the very spirit of the believers' lives, and the food of their souls. No matter that it was not expected or predicted, or that no one could have imagined what a new body of scripture was to say, or why it would have been needed. For the Christians, it was enough that after it had come, its utter indispensability to the children of men was completely obvious. Obvious, that is, to those who believed in it (67:4) And to those who didn't believe? To some it was foolishness; to others, blasphemy (67:5) Both the world of the believers, and the world of those who did not believe, "made sense". Those who had not accepted Jesus as the Christ could explain the folly, the unfortunate errors in judgement that had caused some to accept Him. And, those who had accepted Jesus could explain why the world had rejected Him. People in both worlds felt that they were correct, and each could produce their own set of proofs to substantiate their claims (67:6) Truth, however, depends not on who or how many believe in it. It was, of course, the view of the believers in Christ, that was, in fact, the correct - the only way - to view the world. It was reality
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