Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 156
156 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction lent, or accept them only metaphorically, as Jesus as did in the case of Elijah’s second coming. It becomes evident from this that those who await Jesus’ as literal descent from heaven have created a barrier between themselves and the reality of Jesus as. If Jesus as comes again he will come only as a human being just like all the expected divine reformers before him. If he appears today as an ordinary humble person, having been born in a land similar to the land of Judea in Palestine and commissioned to play the same role he played during his first advent, will the people of that land treat him in a manner other than he was treated before? The Promised Messiah Such is the case of the second advent of the Messiah as in whom we believe. It happened just over a hundred years ago that a humble man of God, by the name of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian was informed by God that Jesus as of Nazareth, Son of Mary as , whose literal second coming is being awaited both by the Christians and the Muslims alike, was a special Prophet of God who passed away like all other prophets of God. Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as declared that Jesus as was not bodily alive and was never bodily lifted to any heavenly space to await his revisit to this earth. He had died like all other Prophets of God and was no more than a Prophet. The second advent of Jesus Christ as , a belief common to Christians and Muslims alike, he was told, was to take place spiritually and not literally. As such, he was told that God had raised him in the fulfilment of that prophecy.