THERE IS ONLY ONE HOLY BOOK.
Every one considers his or her Holy Book as a very special entitiy, directly received from the Almighty, through prophets and sages. True. But these Holy Scriptures are components in a continuum. These are not isolated islands. What is the New Testament without the Old Testament? So you need the Book of the Jews in order to understand Christianity. And almost all characters in the Holy Qur'An are people from the Old testament and the New Testament. How can any one understand Qur'An without learning the Books of the Jews and Christians? Now there are many who beleive that the Prajapati mentioned in the Vedas is none other than Jesus Christ. Guru Granth Sahib of the Sikhs is a truly interfaith Holy Book as it receives freely from all the previous Masters. Many Holy Books are in the process of compilation today, and definitely they will have much to borrow from others.
Julia Christeva and the post-structuralists have established the theory of inter-textuality. No book is an end in itself. It has so much to borrow from the past authors and the cemantic field is something universal. So the best means to ensure inter-faith harmony is to consider all the Holy Books as chapters of the one Holy Book. It is like a long story- a story of the heaven's intervention in the history of human beings, the ultimate result of which will be realised only on the final day.
Abraham Karickam
Every one considers his or her Holy Book as a very special entitiy, directly received from the Almighty, through prophets and sages. True. But these Holy Scriptures are components in a continuum. These are not isolated islands. What is the New Testament without the Old Testament? So you need the Book of the Jews in order to understand Christianity. And almost all characters in the Holy Qur'An are people from the Old testament and the New Testament. How can any one understand Qur'An without learning the Books of the Jews and Christians? Now there are many who beleive that the Prajapati mentioned in the Vedas is none other than Jesus Christ. Guru Granth Sahib of the Sikhs is a truly interfaith Holy Book as it receives freely from all the previous Masters. Many Holy Books are in the process of compilation today, and definitely they will have much to borrow from others.
Julia Christeva and the post-structuralists have established the theory of inter-textuality. No book is an end in itself. It has so much to borrow from the past authors and the cemantic field is something universal. So the best means to ensure inter-faith harmony is to consider all the Holy Books as chapters of the one Holy Book. It is like a long story- a story of the heaven's intervention in the history of human beings, the ultimate result of which will be realised only on the final day.
Abraham Karickam
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