In contrast, Christ's followers could fully comprehend the Jewish people and the rest of the outside world. They understood the doctrine, customs, and laws, as well as the actions and motives of those who had not recognized the Christ. To Christ's followers, all was clear - nothing was a mystery (67:1)

NEW TEACHINGS-
Besides the reality of this wonderful new faith residing in the hearts of the believers, and the beginnings of a new pattern of religious practice, there was something else that was new: divine revelation. At first purely oral, and in later years in written form, the followers of Christ possessed what they regarded as a new body of "scripture": the word of God, on a par with their other sacred scripture. In what would come to be known as the New Testament, they possessed what they believed were teachings from God - new teachings (67:2)

Where did this new "testament" come from? No one was expecting it. None were aware of prophecies pointing to such a "New Testament". Certainly, the existing scripture seemed complete with all the laws and guidance, the recorded history, and the promises of the future that God had given His chosen people. If they had needed more than this, God would have given it to them. To the Jewish people, the scripture was complete (67:3)

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 (67:7)

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