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It's a reply for almost any problem we bring to him. And ultimately, Scriptures and the power of God bring us back to him. Perhaps more than anything else, this is what separates Christians from Muslims. They treat their scripture as divine—a "recitation" (that's what Qur'an means) of God's words, unfiltered through human speech. As Newsweek religion reporter Kenneth Woodward wrote for The Wall Street Journal, "What Christ is for Christians, the Qur'an (in Arabic) is for Muslims: the living Word of God made present in this world."

But theirs is a word that must be ever kept safe from the world's muck and filth. Our Word came to live in it, to one day save us from it. The Word we worship is incorruptible. And knowable. Pity we don't choose to learn more about him.

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This column appeared in the magazine's July 2005 print issue as the seventh entry of "Weblog in Print," CT's effort to duplicate on paper our popular online Weblog feature. Earlier entries include:

Who's Driving This Thing? | Everyone is asking who leads the evangelical movement. (Feb. 21, 2005)

Bad Believers, Non-Believers | Do religious labels really mean anything? (Oct. 19, 2004)

Pro-Abortion Madness | The abortion lobby has abandoned its rationales amid pro-life gains. (Aug. 17, 2004)

Grave Images | The photos from Abu Ghraib have reopened debate on the power of pictures.

Misfires in the Tolerance Wars | Separating church and state now means separating belief and action (Feb. 24, 2004)

A Theoblogical Revolution | Billy Graham's vision goes from print to online, then back again. (Jan. 16, 2004; Weblog update: "New Kids on the Blog," Feb. 13, 2004)

To find out about writing with only four non-consonants, Georges Perec's fictional La Disparition, in Anglo as A Void, contains no "e." Amazon.com has it on hand., and a long quotation is on Haig Utidjian's virtual world.

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