Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 11
11: 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 true. Thus, by the Christian doctrine, attributes of the. Creator-God are exposed to grave injustice reducing the. Divine Being to an empty shell. The criteria of a religion lies in the promotion of human belief in the person of God and in faith in His attributes. . In short, in these abbreviations, the attributive Divine name-the Sufficer, has been put against the Christian doctrine of vicarious atonement and the attributive Divine name-the True Guide, against the Christian theory of redemption. These constitute the two fundamental articles of. Christian Faith in direct conflict with Islam. The doctrine of tripartite godhead is a secondary theorem. Christianity totally rejects Salvation and does not believe in the possibility of spiritual progress for mankind without a belief in the theory of vicarious atonement. These two beliefs negative the two. Divine attributes, the Sufficer and the Guide. As a result,. His two other attributes, the All-Knowing and the Righteous are voided. These two fundamentals of Christian faith, it is thus evident, void the very idea of Godhead. If the teachings of a religion ultimately negative the very basis of godhead, we cannot but treat that religion as untruthful, for the obvious reason that religion essentially consists in promoting faith in the Divine Person.