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1 imagines that he has achieved certain good with his own power and he depends so much upon his power that he attributes everything to it. Real faith in the Unity of God is achieved when a person negatives his own powers also. [Malf uza t, Vol. III, pp. 79-82] The Christian doctrine is that those who do not believe in Trinity and do not subscribe to the atonement of Jesus would be condemned eternally to hell. . . . To confine Lim- itless God to three or four partners and to believe that each is perfect in himself and is yet in need of associa- tion, and to imagine that God was word in the beginning and that the same word that was God descended into the womb of Mary and acquired a body from her blood and was born in the usual manner and suffered all the ail- ments of childhood and when he grew up, he was seized and put upon the cross, is abominable shirk , whereby man has been deified. God is above descending into a womb and acquiring a body and being seized by His ene- mies. Human nature rejects that God should undergo such suf- fering and that He Who is the Master of all Greatness and is the Fountainhead of all honour should permit such humiliation for Himself. The Christians admit that this was the first occasion of the humiliation of God and that He had never suffered such humiliation before. It had never happened before that God should have been estab- lished in the womb of a woman like the sperm. Ever since people had heard the name of God, it had never happened that He should have been born of a woman like a human child. The Christians admit all this and also admit that the three partners in the Godhead did not in