The Holy War — Page 116
116 to this. From my side, the condition had been stipulated from the outset that in this debate, both parties will present their claims from their own revealed scriptures, and will also present logical arguments from these same Revealed Books. However, instead of presenting any logical arguments in support of Jesus being God or the Son of God, Deputy sahib went on and on making claim after claim, feeling so very proud of some of the prophecies that he had extracted to present from the Letters to the Hebrews and some other places of the Bible. Alas! He does not understand that until such prophecies are proven to be, in fact, accurate and that the Messiah as has declared himself to be the fulfilment of those prophecies, and logical arguments are presented to support these claims—till such time these cannot be presented as proofs at all. They are actually just further claims of Deputy sahib that need supporting arguments. Besides these claims, Deputy sahib has not presented anything at all to prove the Divinity of the Messiah. I have already explained that in John 10, the Messiah as in being called the ‘Son of God’, considered himself clearly to be just like others [mentioned in the Bible], and did not ascribe any special characteristic to himself in this regard, although this was the very question of those Jews who had declared him to be guilty of blasphemy. And this was indeed the reason they had held him to be guilty of blasphemy; that if you are indeed the Son of God, then present proof of your Divinity, but he gave no such proof at all. It is a pity, why Deputy sahib does not understand; was it at all possible that the question should be something and the answer some- thing else? Had the Messiah as actually considered himself to be the Son of Allah, he would certainly have presented these very same prophe- cies that Deputy sahib is now presenting. And since he did not present these, we come to know that that was not his claim. If he presented them at some other occasion or countered this repeated objection of the Jews at some other place, that he was really God or the Son of God and these prophecies apply to his person, and he proved his Divinity by