Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 212
SECULAR VIEWPOINTS EXAMINED hundred years from the time of Abrahamas, the House of. Israel reverted to the evil practice of idol worship. This continued until the time of Mosesas. Although Moses as was an outstanding champion of the cause of Unity among prophets, idolatry kept infiltrating and defiling the faith of his followers during the subsequent centuries. This again proves beyond a shadow of doubt that to move away from. Unity is a downhill task. Left to himself, man would always slide down the ladder to the lowly ground of idolatry ground which breeds the vermin of superstition and polytheism. a. Another example quoted by the Holy Quran is that of 'Baitul Ḥarām'() in Mecca, the House of God built by Abrahamas, dedicated only to the cause of His. Unity. But alas, it did not take the idols very long to reenter this illustrious House of God. Except for the name everything else was changed. It was ultimately occupied by no less than three hundred and sixty idols representing each day of the lunar year, filling its chambers from wall to wall. . There was room for all of them, but no room for God. . Is this the evolutionary process the sociologists talk so much about? Is this the way they believe idolatry evolved into the idea of a single Supreme Being? Is this how the image of God is ultimately created by man as he advances from his primitive mental state to a more developed one?. Nay, certainly not! The history of religions unanimously rejects this arbitrary sociologist conclusion. It clearly demonstrates that belief in the Unity of God always descends from Him. It never ascends to Him through a natural upward spiralling trend of progressive idol worship. . If a transition from many gods to one did ever occur, then the history of religion should have attested to it. But not a trace of it is found in the established history of world 208