98. [97.] After they had heard numerous reports about the Lord, many of the Muslims wanted to join the Christian Church in heaven; but they were told to remain as yet in their own religion, or in adherence to the doctrine they had from the Koran, that the Lord was a very great prophet, the Son of God, the wisest of all men, sent to teach the human race. They were told this because they are unable to acknowledge the Lord's Divinity with the heart but only with the lips, since they have been imbued with the ideas of their religion from early childhood, and their spiritual goodness has been formed in part in accordance with such tenets as were articles of their faith, a goodness which cannot be extinguished so suddenly by a new article of faith. Let them only live lives devoted to honesty and justice, and thus to the goodness they know, because all honesty and justice are in themselves something Divine emanating from the Lord. In so doing, they were told, they may yet in their own way live faithfully and be led progressively to the Lord. They were informed that many Christians do not think of the Lord's Divinity, either, but only of His humanity, which they also do not consider Divine. So, for example, many Roman Catholics, and also Protestants, who therefore go to the Father that He may have mercy for the sake of His Son, and rarely to the Lord Himself. Because of that belief and prayer, they continue to retain an idea of the Lord as being a person like any other.