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Proceedings—Debate 29 May 1893 127 these words in them. Your references turned out to be wrong. We had even submitted for your attention the Greek. You told us there are many more references, but you never gave us those. Please pay attention that the ا ج ی ج � [ bheij a —sent] in reference to the sending of Christ was of a totally different type from others. John 16:28 states I came from the Father, and am come into the world; if there is a denial of Divinity in this, then please tell us whether any human being said that, ‘I came from the Father and am going back to the Father. ’ Then you say that the statement that Christ was sent is not cor- rect. We have no right to say it should have been like this or that. We have to decide according to what has been said; otherwise, we might as well say that we are wiser than Allah Almighty and His Prophets, and had it been up to us, we would have said it like this. This is not wisdom but slander. Alexander the Great had a general by the name of Parmenion. When Alexander had conquered Persia, Parmenion said that had he been Alexander, he would have married the daughter of Darius and never left Persia, to which Alexander replied, ‘Had I been Parmenion, I would have also done the same, but since I am Alexander and not Parmenion, I will do something else. ’ Therefore, because at that time it was the Christ and not Mirza sahib, and remember that this was not the only dialogue between him and the Jews so that everything should have happened at that time; this affair went on for three years. Fifth— If Christ was the Creator, what did he create? The answer according to John 1 is, ‘Everything’. If Mirza sahib abhors this ver- dict, then he might as well reject the whole of the New Testament and declare it to be a man-made book, lewd and full of lies. Sixth— When he became man, where did the attributes of Allah go? This is the question from Mirza sahib, and the answer is very