Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 106
106 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction the presence of a dead body. Their complaint, lodged with Pilate, evidently displays their uneasiness about its potential disappearance (Matt 27:62–64). The real and simple answer, however, lay in the fact that as Christ as had not died in the manner that was believed, so the question of a missing body was totally irrelevant, and in keeping with his promise he must have left Judea in search of the lost sheep of the House of Israel. Obviously he could not be seen again. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Viewpoint The Ahmadiyya Muslim viewpoint of the whereabouts of Jesus’ as body is very clear, logical and factual. It presents Jesus as and what happened to him in the light of truth, haloed by its glory. The very reality of Jesus Christ as is so beautiful that there is no need to build an ornamental mystery around him. His reality encompasses his suffering for the sake of sinful humanity throughout his life, which culminated in the agony of the Crucifixion; his deliverance from the cross as promised by the Merciful and Beneficent God Almighty, and his subsequent migration in pursuit of the ten lost tribes of Israel. Hence he delivered the message of God not only to the two tribes whom he addressed before the Crucifixion, but he also reached out to all the other tribes of Israel and thus fulfilled the purpose of his commission. It was only then that he brought the full purpose of his ministry to a final end. These are the noble and illustrious realities of Jesus’ as life.