Lecture Ludhiana — Page 57
57 a method of getting cleansed of sin which is to believe in Jesus as as God and Son of God and then rest assured that he has redeemed our sins and himself became accursed through crucifixion (we seek Allah’s refuge from this). Just think, what has salvation to do with all this? To escape from sin, they proposed an even bigger sin by labelling a man as God. Can there be a greater sin? What is more, after pronouncing him God, they hastened to declare him accursed. Could there be any greater inso- lence and disrespect to God? They converted into God one who ate and drank and was a slave to his physical appetites although the Torah clearly states: Let there be no other God—neither on earth nor in the heavens. This doctrine was inscribed on doors and portals yet it was ignored to invent a new god who was mentioned nowhere in the Torah. I once asked a Jewish scholar, “Do you find any trace of a God who should come out of Mary’s womb and go about being beaten by the Jews?” His reply was that this was nothing but slander and that no trace of such a god was to be found in the Torah, adding that, “Ours is the God Who is the God of the Holy Qur’an: Just as the Holy Qur’an proclaims the Oneness of God, so do we, in accordance with the teachings of the Torah, believe God to be the One, Who is without partners, and we believe no human to be God. ” It is obvious that had the Jews been foretold of a God who would be born of a woman, they would not have opposed Jesus as so fiercely, to the extent of accusing