Lecture Lahore — Page 24
2 4 disciples, and they have abandoned the path of reason by deifying a human being. As for past miracles, which are now in the form of fables, their detractors might wonder just how authentic they are and how far they have been exaggerated, for the Gospel writers were used to overstat- ing things. For instance, it is written in one of the Gospels that if all the works of the Messiah were written down, the whole world would not be large enough to contain them. What kind of logic is this! Is it conceivable that the world should be big enough to hold the actual works but too small to contain a written account of the same! Moreover, the miracles of the Messiah as were no greater than those of Moses as , and, if they are compared to the miracles of Elijah, the scale would definitely tilt in favour of the latter. If such miracles are reason enough for some- one to be considered God, then these Prophets surely also deserve Godhood. The argument that the Messiah called himself 'Son of God', or was described as such in the Gospels, also does not prove his Godhood. A number of people have been called sons of God in the Bible, and some have even been called 'God', and there is no reason why the Messiah should be singled out for Godhood. Even if Jesus alone had been given this title, it would be naïve to take it liter- ally while Divine scriptures are full of such metaphors and there is no reason why the same distinction should not be conferred upon all those who share the title 'Sons of God' with the Messiah.