Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 132
132 dishonest but also as cunning and foxy for his having written off the public debt of Rs. 1,50,000 on receipt of a payment of. Rupees 1 from his son. Similarly, the version of atonement that is put forward, far from mitigating the blame on God, only enhances it and such tricks hardly prove Him to be just; on the contrary He is proved to be unjust besides being a cunning trickster. If that was all He had intended doing, why keep him in hell even for a day and a half?. DID MESSIAH OFFER ATONEMENT?. Taking for granted all the claims of Christians that redemption was a possibility and that Messiah was the Son of. God, the question that engages our attention is whether it has been proved that Messiah did really offer the sacrifice which could be called adequate for purposes of redemption. Messiah's coming down the Cross alive is a concept which carries in it the death of Christianity. If the Messiah came down the. Cross alive, Christianity is finished totally and if the Messiah died a natural death after the incident of the Cross, then all the wrong beliefs that are current among non-Ahmadis would die out. In other words, the Messiah's coming down the Cross alive puts an end to Christianity and his natural death closes the chapter of innovation in Islam. If. Christianity fades out, it would mean life for Islam and if innovation dies, then too there is life for Islam. . PROMISED MESSIAH'S ACHIEVEMENTS. The Promised Messiah (peace be on him and salutations) has accomplished both these achievements. By saving him from death on the Cross, he saved the Messiah on the one hand from an accursed death and on the other, gave a death-blow to. Christianity, and again saved Islam from innovation by establishing that the Messiah died a natural death. For, it is