Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 131
131. Justice. By keeping him in hell for a day and a half, we take it that he has atoned for the sins of the whole world. ”. A BIG JOKE. The world still goes on and if it continued for another 500 or a 1,000 years and though by the grace of God, because of. Ahmadiyya, Christianity will decline day by day and make no progress, still by the time we multiply, it will have added up another 300 to 400 crores to its numbers--but when the question of the atonement for the sins of such a vast number of men came up, it was said that by keeping the Son in hell for a day and a half, the sins of all had been redeemed and that the dictates of God's justice and equity had been satisfied. . There could be no bigger joke than sentencing 570 crore men to eternal punishment and laying it down that they would never be delivered from hell but deciding in respect of. His own son that since he lived in hell for a day and a half, the sins of all had been forgiven. Put this proposal before anybody without mentioning the Messiah and God. Just say this much that there was a person who owed people some 1,50,000 rupees. People demanded that he pay up but he could not. . The matter was at last referred to the Court. He petitioned that the debt be written off. The Judge told him that he could not write it off as that would be against justice; that he could not commit the injustice of letting him off scot free while rupees one lakh and a half were outstanding against him. But later he called his son and asked him to pay one rupee and a half in recompense for the debt of rupees one lakh and a half and when he had paid rupee one and a half, he said that all the debt had been redeemed. Will any person who has his senses about him treat this judgment as reasonable? Everybody would condemn the judge not only as