Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 95
95 humility and forgiveness and he asked them if it was on that account that they would stone him; further, that he taught people love of God and His fear and asked them if it was for that they wanted to stone him, and that he served mankind and exhorted others to serve fellowmen and asked if that was why they wanted to stone him and again that he had done many of the deeds, God the Great had charged him to do and asked them to point out the offence which caused them to stone him). "For a good work we stone thee not but for blasphemy;" (i. e. they did not want to stone him because of the spirit of public service and kindly treatment of the poor or because of his teachings of humility and forgiveness and mercy but because of this unorthodox utterance) “and because that thou being a man, maketh thyself God," (i. e. being a mere mortal he claimed to be God-it was therefore that they would stone him). "Jesus answered them, 'Is it not written in your law', 'I said, ye are gods," (i. e. does not the Bible say that God told. His servants that they were gods). "If he called them gods unto whom the word of God came and the Scripture cannot be broken; say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God. ". The Messiah (peace be on him) said that they had neither become Gods nor heretics when God said in the Bible that they were Gods; and yet only the word son had been used regarding him and they called him a heretic. When the appellation God had been used in respect of people before him and they did not become heretics thereby but, on the contrary, it was interpreted as having been used