Jesus In India — Page 52
52 J e s u s i n I n d i a on the cross; that he retained his bodily functions intact; and that he had undergone no visible change. Furthermore, the Gospels do not contain any eyewitness account of Jesus’ ascent to heaven. Had there been such an account, it would have lacked credibility, for making mountains out of molehills and magnifying small things into big ones, seems to be a habit with the evangelists. For example, if one of them happens to remark that Jesus is the Son of God, another sets about making him into a full- fledged God, the third invests him with power over the whole universe, and the fourth bluntly says that he is everything, and that there is no other God besides him. In short, exaggerations carry them too far. The vision in which the dead were seen to come out of their graves and make for the city is a case in point. One can notice that this vision had been given a literal interpretation, so far as to say that the dead had actually risen out of their graves, had come to the city of Jerusalem, and even visited their relatives. Consider how a mountain has been made out of a molehill, resulting in a veritable range! How can one arrive at the truth when things are so exaggerated! It is also worth considering that the Gospels, the so-called Books of God, contain preposterous claims, such as that if all the works of Jesus had been committed to writing, there wouldn’t be room enough in the whole world to accommodate them! 18 Can such exaggeration be the way of honesty and truth? If indeed works of Jesus were so limitless and exceeded all No one testifies that he is an eyewitness and that he saw for himself Jesus' bodily ascent to the heavens. (Author) 18 John 21:25 (Translator)