Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 17
17 no cause for criticism. Christianity ascribes equal partners to God. We have only servants and subordinate agents. . The latter are a necessary means so that the person of Allah, the Excellent, remains inaccessibly high and immeasurably distant and that a wall intervenes between God and His servants which, only one who strives in His way, may be able to break through. In short, the one who knows of the source of life and has knowledge of the extant is alone the. All-Powerful Being. In like manner, the righteousness of. God is a guarantee of the salvation of the devotee. . If man cannot be saved without vicarious atonement, then all the preceding Prophets turn out to be liars and the. God Who sent them shares the epithet. For, Adam came and required of men to believe in him. Noah came and asked people to accept his word. The story of Adam does not occur in detail in the Bible. In the case of Noah the Bible goes into details and says that Noah invited people to believe in Him. If man could not be saved without vicarious atonement, both Noah and the person who deputed him were liars. . Then came Abraham making the same offer to men to accept the truths he had brought. The story of Abraham, however, is as sketchy in the Bible as that of Adam. But following this, the story of Moses is recorded in great detail. The. Bible says that he put before the people his teachings, warning them of God's wrath if they rejected it and assuring them of salvation if they observed it. He did not say that he had been propounding to them his teachings which were, nevertheless, impracticable, like the Christians who assert that the law was far from practicable. Moses did not say aught but that if they observed the law they could rest assured of salvation. Therefore, if the Christian doctrine is true and