无论是天主教徒、新教徒，还是属于数以千计的基督教派别与宗派中的某一支的"异端"，你几乎总会发现，传教士在一开始就预设他想要争取的皈依者接受他那本"圣经"为宗教问题上的最终权威。于是，这位潜在的皈依者能做的唯一回应，便是引用圣经中与传教士观点相矛盾的经文，或者就这些经文的诠释展开辩论。

Whether Catholic, Protestant or a "Cultist," of the thousand -and - one - sects - and - denominations-of-Christianity, never will you find a missionary who will not, prima facie, presuppose that his potential convert accepts his "Holy Bible" as the book of final authority on every religious opinion? The only answer the prospective proselyte has is to quote verses from the Bible which are contradictory to the missionary's or debate their interpretations.

当穆斯林从基督徒自己的圣经中证明他的观点，而专业的牧师、教区牧师或新教牧师无法反驳这些论据时，基督徒必然会采取的回避手段便是："你是否接受圣经为神的话语？"乍看之下，这个问题似乎很简单，但不能只用一个简单的"是"或"否"来回答。你看，人必须先说明自己的立场。可是基督徒不会给你这个机会。他会变得不耐烦："回答——'是'或'否'！"两千年前，犹太人对耶稣也是这样做的，只是令人惊讶的是，他并没有像今天的时尚那样被绑上束缚衣。读者们必定会欣然同意，事情并非总是非黑即白。在这两个极端之间，还有各种深浅不一的灰色。如果你回答"是"，那就意味着你愿意全盘接受他圣经中从创世记到启示录的一切，毫无保留。如果你回答"否"，他就会迅速摆脱你所提出的事实，并向在场的同道求助："你们看，这个人不信圣经！他有什么资格引用我们的经典来阐述他的观点？"他以这种九头蛇般的翻转脱身，便心满意足地认为自己已经安全地回避了问题。穆巴里格（Muballigh）应当怎么办呢？他必须阐明自己对圣经的立场，这是他理应做的。

When the Muslim proves his point from the Christian's own Holy Scripture, and when the professional priest, parson or predikant cannot refute the arguments — the inevitable Christian evasion is — "DO YOU ACCEPT THE BIBLE AS GOD'S WORD? On the face of it, the question seems to be an easy one, but a simple "Yes" or "No" cannot be given as an answer. You see, one has first to explain one's position. But the Christian will not give one the opportunity. He gets impatient. "Answer — 'Yes or No!' " he insists. The Jews did the same to Jesus two thousand years ago, except that surprisingly he was not strait-jacketed, as is the fashion today! The reader will readily agree that things are not always either BLACK or WHITE. Between these two extremes there are various shades of GREY. If you say "Yes" to his question, then it would mean that you are prepared to swallow everything HOOK, LINE and SINKER, from Genesis to Revelation from his Bible. If you respond with a "No" he quickly unhooks himself from the facts you have presented, and rallies support from his co-religionists in the audience with; "You see, this man does not believe in the Bible! What right has he to expound his case from our Book?" With this hydra-like somersault he rests content that he has safely evaded the issue. What is the Muballigh1to do? He has to explain his position vis-a-vis the Bible, as he ought to do.

1. 穆巴里格:伊斯兰的传播者

1. MUBALLIGH: The Propagator of Islam

我们穆斯林毫不犹豫地承认，在《圣经》中，有三种不需要任何专门训练即可辨认的见证。它们是：

We Muslims have no hesitation in acknowledging that in the Bible, there are three different kinds of witnessing recognizable without any need of specialized training. These are:

1. 你将能够辨认出圣经中可以被称为“神的话语”的部分。 2. 你也将能够识别出可以被称为“神的先知的话语”的部分。 3. 你会很容易地观察到，圣经的大部分内容是目击者或耳闻者的记录，或是出于传闻而写下的文字。因此，这些部分属于“历史学家的话语”。 你不必费力去寻找圣经中这些不同类型证据的例子。下面的引文会把这一立场阐释得清清楚楚。

1. You will be able to recognize in the Bible what may be described as "The Word of God." 2. You will also be able to discern what can be described as the "Words of a Prophet of God." 3. And you will most readily observe that the bulk of the Bible is the records of eye witnessess or ear witnesses, or people writing from hearsay. As such they are the "Words of a Historian" You do not have to hunt for examples of these different types of evidences in the Bible. The following quotations will make the position crystal clear:

第一种类型:

The FIRST Type:

(a) “我将从他们的弟兄中间，为他们兴起一位像你一样的先知……我要把我的话放在他口中，他要把我所吩咐他的，都告诉他们。”（申命记 18:18）

(a) I will raise them up a prophet . . . and I will put my words in ... and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him." (Deuteronomy 18:18)

（b）我，我就是耶和华，除我以外，别无拯救主。（以赛亚书 43:11）

(b) I even, I am the Lord, and beside me there is no saviour." (Isaiah 43:11)

(c) "你们要向我转过来，就必得救，地的四极都要如此；因为我是神，并无别神。"（以赛亚书 45:22）

(c) "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the end of the earth: for I am God, and there is non else." (Isaiah 45:22)

注意上述引文中以绿色高亮标出的第一人称单数代词，你会毫不费力地同意，这些陈述听起来确实像是真主的话语。

Note the first person pronoun singular (highlighted in green) in the above references, and without any difficulty you will agree that the statements seem to have the sound of being GOD'S WORD.

第二种类型:

The SECOND Type:

(a) “耶稣大声喊着说：‘以利，以利，拉马撒巴别尼？’……”（马太福音 27:46）

(a) "Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani? . . ." (Matthew 27:46)

(b) 耶稣回答说："以色列啊，你要听！主我们的 神是独一的主。"（马可福音 12:29）

(b) "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord:" (Mark 12:29)