Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction

by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad

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118 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction It is strange that this very important aspect of Christian doctrine is not explained in the scriptures at all. As far as the reference to Christ as and the Holy Ghost is concerned there is no dearth of evidence that they are presented as two distinct persons, who did not share the same thought processes and the same feelings. Otherwise the visions of the Holy Ghost as distinct from Christ as would be impossible to conceive, particularly during the period that Christ as was confined to his human body. The questions that would certainly arise as to what actually happened to the person of Christ as during that experience, in relation to the other two constituents of Christian Godhead, are: 1. Did the other two constituents, that is, God the Father and the Holy Ghost, jointly share in any way the body of Jesus Christ as or his experiences in their relation to that body? 2. Was Jesus as the sole occupant of that body and as such he did not share his experience in relation to that body with either of the remaining two constituents of the Trinity? The ramifications of the former have already been discussed. In the case of the latter a further complication arises as to the rela- tionship of Jesus as , at that time, with the other two constituents of Trinity. Did Jesus as become a completely separate entity by himself during that period or did he remain an integral part of the other two constituents, only additionally occupying a dwelling in the form of a human body exclusively? Now we have another ques- tion to answer: 3. Was his divine entity entirely contained in his human body, or was it only projected out of the commonly shared form of God