Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 155
— Part I 154 Human nature accepts such a just teaching to be Divine, and this is what becomes the criterion for distinguishing man’s teaching from that of God. A study of the Christian dogma of hereditary sin is an interesting case in point. It could not have emanated from God’s teaching endowed to Christ as. We are justified therefore in believing that it had to be a Pauline interpolation of Christ’s as teaching, otherwise it would be a strange God who would continually punish the subsequent generations of Adam as till the end of time for a momentary, transient lapse on his part. This reflection is not aimed at censuring Christianity, but is only meant to highlight the role of the human hand and the havoc it plays with truth. Without getting into an argument on the relative merits of the Christian doctrine of hereditary sin, let us see how the Quran in one stroke wipes out this notion. In the verse quoted above, Allah says, you will not be questioned about the wrongdoings of your ancestors. They will be answerable for what they did; you need only be concerned with what you do. In this regard the Quran declares: … And no burdened soul can bear the burden of another; and if a heavily laden soul call another to bear its