Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 397
397 He came with another weapon. The greatest evil to-day is the pernicious doctrine that the son of Mary is the Son of God or God Himself. A large portion of the human race holds this doctrine and strenuous efforts are being made to convert the whole 'pagan* world to this belief. In short this setting up of the son of a woman as God is the most malignant cancer that is eating into the frame of the human race and it was to root out this cancer that the promised Messiah came into this world. He gave powerful arguments to show not only that Jesus did not die on the cross, but was alive when he was taken down from the accursed tree, but that he died natural death and lies buried in the Khan Yar Street, Srinagar. This is a truth which the world will soon recognise and then will be sounded the death-knell of Christianity. These things may appear to be wonderful, but now God has willed that an end should be put to the worship of Jesus as God and nothing can thwart the will of God. It is impossible to reform Christendom as long as it holds to the belief that Jesus was God or the Son of God. The purpose of Ahrnad's advent was to bring Jesus down to the level of ordinary mortal's and accomplished the object of his advent by pointing out the grave in which the supposed God of the Christians has lain buried for the last 1900 years. God has ordained that the tomb of Jesus should also prove the grave of Christianity. The supposed death and the so-called resurrection of Jesus constitute the beam on which Christianity rests and it must fall as soon as the beam is removed. It can not survive the beam for a single day. Let not the reader think that Christianity will take a long time to fall. It does not take its stand on any solid ground. The whole fabric of Cnristianity, stupendous as it is, rests on a very frail support, vix t the supposed events of the death and resur- rection of Jesus. As soon as it is shown that Jesus was not