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55 Malfuzat – Volume IV relationship whatsoever. One could illustrate this with another example. If some - one is suffering from a headache and another person strikes their own head with a rock out of mercy and suggests that this will cure the former, this would be laugh - able. So someone ought to tell me what exactly have the Christians presented as a solution? Whatever they propose is a shameless ruse; how can it be a cure for sin? The suicide of Christ does not even hold any real relevance to a person’s deliver - ance from sin. I am often astonished as to what Christ must have been thinking when he decided to put himself on the cross to give others salvation. If only he had saved himself from this death on the cross, which makes a person accursed as per the Christians themselves. In view of their own doctrine, it is necessary for one to take curse upon oneself for atonement, as it is a punishment for sin. So if Christ had instead employed some sensible method to benefit humanity, this would have been far better and more fruitful than suicide. Therefore, a powerful argument that falsifies the concept of atonement is that the cure for sin and atonement have no mutual relevance to one another. Another argument that proves this concept to be false is the question that to what extent has the atonement fulfilled the inherent desire of humanity to be saved from sin. The answer is clear: it has done nothing, because the two have no mutual rela - tionship whatsoever. This is why the atonement has not been able to curb the passions and floods of sin. If the atonement possessed any effect to save one from sin, the men and women of Europe would have surely been safeguarded from sin. However, every manner of sin is to be found in the nobles and commoners of Europe alike. Anyone who entertains doubt in this regard is free to visit London parks and Paris hotels to see what goes on. Fornication is so rampant that one fears it may be declared permissible by way of religious verdict—it can be seen in practical terms nonetheless. The use of alcohol continues to grow so rapidly that a few days ago a lady asked for drinking water at a hotel but she was told that water is for cleaning vessels and bathing etc. , what else is there for drinking except wine? Now one can reflect and observe that the blood of the Messiah, if it were a dam, has proven inadequate to contain the flood of sin. In fact, this flood has destroyed previous dams as well, and the concept has led people to complete permissiveness and freedom from religious law. How to be Saved from Sin Now, when it is evidently clear that atonement cannot deliver a person from sin, p. 328