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Proceedings—Debate 25 May 1893 77 lack of attention to your own scriptures that you accuse me of being a blas- phemer; your very own Books themselves make me God and say that I am Omnipotent, then how can I be a blasphemer? In fact, what is required very much is that you should now begin to worship and idolize me because I am God! Then the second proof he should have given should have been to say that Come and see the Signs of God in me, and just as God Almighty has made the sun, the moon, the planets, and earth, etc. a portion of the earth, or some star, or some other such thing has also been created by me, and I can even now demonstrate such power of creation, and that I possess far greater power and strength than manifested in the ordinary miracles of the Prophets. And it would have been appropriate for him to present to them a detailed list highlighting that he had done this and this godly thing up till today. Has any Prophet—from Moses to any other later Prophet— ever done any such things similar to this? Had he presented such proofs, the Jews would have been silenced and all the Pharisees and scribes would have immediately fallen in prostration before him, saying, Yes, O Lord! You are indeed God. . . we had forgotten. You have — in comparison to the sun which is there since eternity, shining and making the day bright, and in comparison to the moon which rises in the night with its beautiful light and brightens the night — created a sun and a moon yourself, and shown to us; and you have also presented proofs of your claim to Divinity from our accepted and recognized Books. How can we now dare not to call you our God? Where God has manifested His refulgence with His powers, what can a humble man do? But the Messiah as did not present anything from these two proofs. And what he did present are these sentences that he advanced, do listen: ‘Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not