Islam - The Summit of Religious Evolution — Page 112
112 discussion of Divine Justice makes it absolutely clear that Jesus, if he were crucified not once but a thousand times, could not by his death redeem the people of their sins. How appropriate it would be for us to escape the punishment of our sins, to accuse God's beloved prophet Jesus of being cursed by the death on the Cross, which means that his heart abandoned God and he became disobedient to Him. It is earnestly hoped that Jews and Christians, gifted with reason and wisdom, will give up all irrational dogmas borrowed from paganism. Jesus was but a prophet of God whom God saved from the accursed death on the cross and caused him to die a natural death like other great divine prophets. Thus the current Christian beliefs of redemption or atonement of sin and trinity are contrary to those preached by Jesus or his close followers. These beliefs appear to be later fabrications and are generally attributable to Paul in the New Testament. Interestingly, gospels authored by the apostles like Barnabas, Thomas, Hermans, Iraneans, etc. , which according to early Christian documents were freely used in the church, were excluded from the Bible when it was first compiled in its current form by the Council of Neice in 325 A. D. 48 Copies of these gospels have since become available from various discoveries and do not support the current Christian beliefs. Rather, they affirm the absolute unity of God and do not support the concept of trinity. Similarly, these gospels deny Jesus' physical death on the cross and his supposed resurrection and physical ascension as the Christians believe today. These gospels especially that of Thomas, affirms that Jesus survived his ordeal on the cross and was still alive when he was removed from the cross. The fact that their books are excluded from the Bible also confirm that these books did not support the Roman interpretation of Jesus' message. It is indeed sad to see that the modern Christians faith relics more heavily on the Roman interpretation of Jesus' teachings rather than his actual teachings. Thus the process of compilation of the New Testament, destructions of all original documents, the spate of subsequent revisions and improvements and the overwhelmingly influence of Roman culture on modern day Christianity provides ample evidence that the original message has been extensively mutilated.