Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 23
? 16 has greater power than the other, this will amount to an imperfection in God the Almighty. According to the consensus of belief, all religions agree that an imperfect being cannot be a God. The point does not call for any lengthy elaboration. This is a logically cogent theory that an imperfect object is neither eternal from the beginning nor everlasting, and a being lacking in these characteristics cannot be the deity. All religions agree on this; even the Christian religion cannot challenge the stand that God must necessarily be eternal and everlasting while no imperfect being is eternal or everlasting. It was in my early youth when I was about twenty years of age, that I happened to go to Dalhousie for a change. A well-known Christian missionary, Mr. Ferguson, by name, was on a visit there. He had converted hundreds of people to Christianity. He was engaged in distributing literature there and spreading the Christian mission work. Some Muslims who had a zeal for the faith approached their Maulvis, urging them to counter-act this threat. Nevertheless, they pleaded their inability. At last, they called on me and asked me to take it up with the missionary as they felt they had lost their face. I was very young then and was not so advanced in theological studies, but I readily responded to their call. Accordingly, a party of us started towards the Christian missionary's residence. On arrival there, I told him that I wanted to put a few questions to him. We were seated around