Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 72
72 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction anywhere else. The question is, if Jesus as ascended to heaven eternally, had the lost sheep of Israel also ascended earlier? The Christians believe that after having been taken down from the cross as dead, his soul returned to his body after three days or so and then he was seen climbing into the clouds and disappearing into the unknown recesses of the heavens, only to reach ulti- mately the throne of his Father and to sit on His right hand eternally from then on. If this is true then we will be faced with a very grave dilemma indeed. We shall have to choose between two positions, one taken by Jesus as himself and the other by his followers. The two positions are so uncompromising that accept- ing one would certainly negate the other. If Jesus as was right, as we believe he was, then before ascending to the heaven he should have remembered his own promise and sought some more time from ‘God the Father’ to tarry a bit longer on earth so that he could go to the countries where many of the Israeli tribes before him had gone and settled. He could not have ascended to the heavens without breaking his promise and trust, blemishing and irreparably damaging his perfect god, perfect man image. If, on the contrary, the Christian theologians are to be considered right and it is accepted that Jesus as actually forgot his commitment to the house of Israel and left straight for the heavens, then we must conclude with a heavy heart that the Christian theologians are right indeed but, alas, Christianity turns out to be false. Because if Jesus as is proved to be false, Christianity cannot be true. We believe that he was a true Prophet of God and could not have made a false promise. What he meant by the lost sheep was the ten tribes of Israel, who had earlier migrated from Judea and