Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 20
? 13 of the Divine Being, even as perfect Truthfulness is the virtue of the Lord-God. In subscribing to the view that God, the Excellent is alone the All-Knowing and the Righteous, the Bible has no alternative left but to agree that none can be Sufficient except the All-Knowing, even as none will grant salvation but the Lord-God of righteousness. If these two basic postulates are tenable, it follows that the Divine attribute of perfect knowledge and His manifestation of Sufficiency negative the theory of vicarious atonement, in as much as, the Divine attribute of righteousness and His manifestation as the True guide negative the theory that the law is a curse and constitute a powerful rebuttal of the Christian doctrine of Salvation. If God is the All-Knowing, there remains no room for vicarious atonement in the structure of faith, for, the theory of vicarious atonement is grounded in the belief that Allah proposed to run the universe according to a definite scheme and deputed His prophets to guide men accordingly, but ultimately the scheme failed, and God had, after beating a retreat, to sacrifice His son. If this position is tenable, God neither remains the All- Knowing nor the Sufficient. CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES Thus, by the Christian doctrine, attributes of the Creator- God are exposed to grave injustice reducing the Divine