The Holy War — Page 79
Proceedings—Debate 25 May 1893 79 presents only this excuse that the word ‘son’ has been spoken concerning me in the very same way that it was spoken concerning your elders. In other words, he was trying to say that he would have been blameworthy and guilty of blasphemy if he had claimed to be the Son of God distinc- tively. Your Books are filled with references to people being called the sons of God and God — go and take a look! Then, the Messiah as did not just stop there; nay rather, he has admitted his many human weaknesses at various places throughout the Gospels. When he was asked, for example, about the Day of Judgement, and he declared his lack of knowledge and said that apart from Allah Almighty, nobody knows when the Day of Reckoning will take place. Now, it is evident that knowledge is an attribute of the soul, and not of the body. Thus, if he had the soul of Allah Almighty in him and he was, in fact, Allah Almighty Himself, then what is the reason behind the declaration of lack of knowledge? Can God Almighty become igno- rant also after knowing? Then, it is written in Matthew 19:16:1 And, behold, one came and said unto him, (that is to say, to the Messiah), ‘Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God. Then, it is written in Matthew 20:20 that when the mother of the chil- dren of Zebedee requested for her sons to sit on the right and left of the Messiah, he replied that this was not within his power. Now, do tell where his ‘Omnipotence’ has gone? Can an Omnipotent Being ever become helpless? And now that so much contradiction has crept into the attributes that while the disciples regard him to be Omnipotent, he himself denies being Omnipotent; so what respect and standing are left of these prophecies that when they are presented on behalf of the 1. In the King James Version this reference is Matthew 19:16–17. [Publisher]