We have also heard a number of the foolish of the earth assert that the
genuine text of the heavenly Gospel doth not exist amongst the Christians, that
it hath ascended unto heaven. How grievously they have erred! How oblivious of
the fact that such a statement imputeth the gravest injustice and tyranny to a
gracious and loving Providence! How could God, when once the Day-star of the
beauty of Jesus had disappeared from the sight of His people, and ascended unto
the fourth heaven, cause His holy Book, His most great testimony amongst His
creatures, to disappear also? What would be left to that people to cling to
from the setting of the day-star of Jesus until the rise of the sun of the Muhammadan
Dispensation? What law could be their stay and guide? How could such people be
made the victims of the avenging wrath of God, the omnipotent Avenger? How
could they be afflicted with the scourge of chastisement by the heavenly King?
Above all, how could the flow of the grace of the All-Bountiful be stayed? How
could the ocean of His tender mercies be stilled? We take refuge with God, from
that which His creatures have fancied about Him! Exalted is He above their
comprehension!
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
