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chapter nine conclusion As far as this enquiry is concerned, we hope that we have done enough justice to it. But before we rest our case here we want to make a passionate appeal to the Christian world to get down from their ivory tower of make-belief and descend to the hard realities of life. Jesus Christ as was a perfect man in the context of his age, but no more than a man. He reached the heights which he was destined to reach as a special Messenger of God, entitled the Messiah as. This made him unique among all the prophets since the time of Moses as to the time of his advent. Every Prophet is assigned a difficult task indeed. They have to bring about reformation among a people that have become thoroughly evil. In the case of Jesus as , this task was made even more difficult because he was not only to fight against the com- mon evils of society, but he was to bring about a dramatic and revolutionary change in the attitude of the Jewish people. As it happens in the case of followers of every religion, with the passage of time they gradually deviate away from truth and begin to wander in the wilderness of sin. So did it happen in the case of the Jewish people. By the time of the advent of Jesus as , they had virtually become spiritually dead. The water of divine life had ebbed out, leaving behind dead stony hearts. The task Jesus as was