Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 31
and every Christian knows that Jonah had not died in the belly of the whale. If Jesus lay dead in the sepulchre, what resemblance was there between him and Jonah? It is also well known that after his deliverance from the cross, Jesus exhibited his wounds to the disciples. If he had been bestowed a new life of glory, how is it that the wounds of his earthly life were visible on his glorious body? These are myths on which the doctrine of the godhead of Jesus had been constructed. But the time is coming, indeed it has arrived, when God Almighty will blow away all these myths like minute particles. Jesus was a Divine Messenger and was a favoured and holy man. It is the height of injustice to conceive, even for a moment, that such a chosen one was hanged upon the cross and, dying on it, became accursed. The favoured servants of God Almighty and His beloved Messengers, who lose themselves in their love for God and, out of that love, discard this mortal life, and are invested with a new and holy life, are bestowed the blessing that they are able to purify others from the stain of accursedness, and cannot become accursed themselves. They may be nailed to the cross, but if death by crucifixion is truly an accursed death, it becomes necessary that such chosen servants of God should be delivered from such a death, and should be safeguarded against its stain. In Arabic and Hebrew the concept of curse is related to the heart, and a person can be called accursed only if in truth his heart turns away from God, and becomes black, and is bereft of God's mercy, and is deprived altogether of the love of God and is emptied of all recognition of God and, becoming blind and bereft like Satan, is filled with the poison of misguidance, and 23