Life of Ahmad — Page 316
JESUS as IS DEAD as 316 published a tract, putting before Europe the reasons which the Promised Messiah as has given to prove that Jesus as did not die on the cross, in London in 1924 (its German translation was published from Berlin in 1925), I received a number of letters from the Christian authorities of various places in which they took up the same attitude. 64 Such Christians, in their bewilderment, forget the fact that if Jesus as did not die on the cross there could be no Atonement. God did not then reconcile mankind to Himself in Jesus as , and there was no vicarious sacrifice and no Saviour. If there was no risen Saviour there was no experience of God coming through the humanity of Jesus as and there was no son of God. If there was no son of God the doctrine of the Holy Trinity falls to the ground. With all these distinctive features gone there is nothing left of the creed of Christianity. 'There is another group of modern Christians who are much more advanced and independent in their 64 It reminds one of a similar attitude adopted against the Promised Messiah as by the mullahs of India. When he first proclaimed that Jesus as did not ascend to heaven with his physical body and that he died a natural death, the mullahs were infuriated and declared him to be an apostate and an infidel. But now the times are changed. The Promised Messiah as has established the fact that Jesus as died a natural death in Kashmir. So people are no longer interested in the old controversy. Now the same mullahs simply adopt the attitude that the question is immaterial to Islam! it is not fundamental; we need not discuss it! Needless to say, if Jesus as was really alive in the heavens and it was he who was to come, there was no chance for Ahmad as to claim himself to be the Promised Messiah.