Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 134
134 natural death, the coming Messiah must rise from among the. Muhammadan people, and for Islam and Muslims a great objective is at once reared up. The nations, whose hopes are dead, die out. But nations, whose hopes live, can never perish. . SIGNIFICANCE OF MAN. If, it is said that the difference between man and God is unlimited and since the condition of man is different from that of God, therefore the punishment that man could undergo eternally was equal to the Son of God remaining in hell for a day and a half and, therefore, the one-and-a-half-day visit of the Son of God to hell should not be a matter of surprise, in comparison with the eternal punishment to the entire mankind; that the torment they would suffer through eternity, the. Messiah had suffered in a day and a half, then the answer to this is as follows :When there is a limitless difference between God and man which even Christians admit, considering this very infinity of difference, it is not within human power to comprehend the extent of disparity between God and men. Something that is limitless is beyond human comprehension. Only a limited quantity which is within the reach of ken, is susceptible of comprehension. Now when this incomprehensible disparity is kept in view against the belief that the collective punishment of 570 crore was made up by God going to hell for a day and a half and redeeming mankind thereby, it means, in other words, that they have computed the measure of the period it takes God to suffer the punishment that mankind should undergo. When the disparity between God and man is incomprehensible, how is it that they could estimate that all that cumulative suffering had been undergone by God in the course of a day and a half. In that case, it was not