Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 52
52 the tree of life, the tree of death, misled Adam into believing that he would die after eating of its fruit. This death either could be physical or spiritual. He was wrong on both scores. . They could not incur physical death, for it was the tree of life, and they could not die spiritually either, as it was the tree of knowledge, that is, it was a source of a new spiritual life for man. . Here Christianity cannot claim that God the Father made the mis-statement and God the Son did not. . For, God, in Christian terminology, stands for the Tripartite godhead. God the Father is not distinct from God the Son nor is the latter distinct from the Holy Ghost. If, therefore,. God the Father made a misleading statement, it means that the other two, the Son and the Holy Ghost shared the blame. . If therefore sin was transmitted through heredity, then on the authority of the Bible, we are led to the conclusion that Adam did not sin, but God sinned, and, in other words, Jesus sinned in that he made a misleading statement for which he should take the entire blame. . In final analysis, God the Supreme has been portrayed in such nasty colours by the Bible as make His picture a repulsive and regrettable sight. In the face of these texts. Jesus cannot lay claim to the title of saviour. How can one, who makes misleading observations and indulges in deception, be a redeemer?. ADAM CREATED TO IMBIBE DIVINE. Another. ATTRIBUTES از argument that extenuates the sin of Adam is that he made it on account of mis-judgment. The Holy. Quran stresses this very point. Even if we place our reliance