By Chet Yarbrough Lectures By Frank E. Peters Narrated by Frank
E. Peters Organized religion is a puzzle wrapped in a conundrum.
The puzzle lies in a common religious belief that says there is
only one God; the conundrum is that the three largest one-God’
religions refuse to peacefully accept their differences and
either kill or banish those who do not follow their beliefs.
Which among the three have witnesses to the truth? Frank E.
Peters is a 1961 PhD graduate in Islamic Studies from Princeton
with a BA and Masters degree in Greek and Latin from St. Louis
University. Peters chronologically recounts the history of
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All three religions have text
to provide a foundation for their beliefs. Jews rely on the
“Torah”, which is a part of the “Old Testament”; Christians rely
on the “Old Testament” as modified and expanded by the “New
Testament”; Islam relies on the “Quran” which is codified by a
Caliph twenty years after the death of Muhammad. The irony of
these texts is that none we