Refutation of the Divinity of Christ — Page 10
10 said I do not know —he did so because he did not wish to disclose the matter at that particular time. However, I contend that if the intent was not to disclose the matter, what was the need to lie? Why not clearly articulate that it is unwise to disclose the matter at that particular time? The truth of the matter, in fact, is that the word everything in the idiom of the holy scriptures does not generally connote the meaning in an all-encompassing sense, as is clear from pages 172 and 182 of I z h a r ‘ I saw i. Thus, to say in John 21:17 that Christ knew everything does not necessarily mean that it carries the connotation in an all-encompassing sense. In Numbers 31:7 it is written that, ‘And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. ’ Yet in Judges chapter 6 and chapter 2, it is stated that approximately 200 years after this event, the Midianites pre- vailed against all the Children of Israel for a period of seven years. An egregious contradiction exists between these two statements; for, if all the Midianites had been killed, where did they gain this strength from? Then, (in Exodus 9:6) it is written that all the cattle of the Egyptians died, yet in verse 20 it is written that everyone that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses. Thus, the question arises that when all the cattle of the Egyptians had died, from whence did the cattle for the servants of Pharaoh come? In answer to both these questions, it is written by Padre Thakur Das in I z h a r ‘ I saw i that the word all does not generally connote the sense of all-encompassing; that is, despite saying ‘all’ it is not to be understood that not a single Midianite was left, and