The Criterion for Religions — Page 17
17 how far we may go back in time, and that He has been the Creator and Lord of the worlds since eternity- they at least do not believe that He has eternally been crucifying His darling sons for the sake of mankind. Rather, they say that it was only recently that He hit upon this stratagem, and that the ageing father has only now thought of saving others from punishment by having His son crucified. It is clear that once one accepts that God is eternal and timeless, one must also accept that God's creation has always existed in one form or the other, and that because of the eternal manifestation of the God's eternal attributes a whole universe has at times been disappearing into the realm of non-existence and, at times, one universe has been appearing in place of another. Furthermore, no one can count how many universes God has withdrawn from the world and replaced them with others. God Almighty, in fact, points to this ever-existing generic universe when He says in the Holy Quran that He created the Jinn before He had created Adam. Despite self-evident proof that the universe must be timeless in nature, the Christians have yet to produce a list showing the number of times that the 'Son of God' was drawn upon the cross in the countless universes, each isolated from the other. While it is evident, in accordance with the principles of the Christian faith, that no one except the son of God is free from sin, we