The Honour of Prophets — Page 57
57 Christ was in fact a materialistic and deceitful man, who neither showed any miracle, nor pronounced a single true prophecy. He writes that whatever the Gospels state regarding the numerous miracles that the Messiah showed to the Jews is belied by the account of the Gospels themselves. For it is established by the Gospel testimony that whenever the elders of the nation would ask Christ for a miracle, it was his practice to make use of vile language and say to the elders in response that no miracle would be shown to them. He further writes that even if we grant that Jesus cured certain ailing people, this does not serve as a real argument for his divinity because his opponents, too, showed similar miracles in the same era. How then can reason accept that such miracles establish the divinity of Christ when other Prophets manifested far greater miracles? In short, when the Jews subjected Christ to the greatest disgrace, the essential consequence of this was that while one party took a course of extreme denigration, the other responded by adopting a path of excessive exaltation. Thus, when the flood of excessive exaggeration surged forth among the Christians, it was then that the foundation for the deification of the Messiah was laid. This point can be fully understood when we observe the onslaughts of the Jews on the one hand, and closely