Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 34
34 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction Our faculties are confounded if we try to imagine the enormity of all the crimes ever committed by humanity since the dawn of Christianity till the time when the sun of existence sets on human life. Have all these crimes been transferred to the account of Jesus Christ as , peace and blessing of Allah be upon him? Have all these sins been accounted for in the small space of the three days and three nights that Jesus as is supposed to have suffered? Still one keeps on wondering, how could the vast sea of criminals so intensely embittered by the deadly poison of crime be sweetened and cleansed entirely of the effects of their crimes by the mere act of their believing in Jesus as. Again, one’s thoughts are carried back to the remote past, when poor Adam and Eve so naively commit- ted their first crime only because they were very cunningly duped and ensnared by Satan. Why was their sin not also washed clean? Did they not have faith in God? Was it a minor act of goodness to have faith in God the Father and was it their fault anyway that they had never been told of a ‘Son’ living eternally with God the Father? Why did not the ‘Divine Son’ take pity on them and beseech God the Father to punish him for their crimes instead? How one wishes that that had happened, since it might have been so much easier to be punished only for that one single faltering moment on the part of Adam and Eve. The entire story of hu- manity would certainly have been rewritten in the book of fate. A heavenly earth would have been created instead and Adam and Eve would not have been banished eternally from heaven along with the untold number of their unhappy progeny. Jesus as alone would have been banished from heaven merely for three days and three nights and that would have been that. Sadly, neither God