Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 269
7 April 1908 269 Although there are many in this world who believe Jesus to be the Son of God and even the One God [Himself ], their condition is not so pitiable because those concepts and doc- trines are based only upon longstanding erroneous and fabri- cated narratives and tales, and those people are following tradi- tional accounts. In contrast, Dowie imputed a lie to God with this claim of his. He had, thus, attempted to mislead the masses through attributing a false claim to God. He actually used to say that God had personally informed him of it. He was mis- guiding people by proclaiming—in his capacity as a ‘prophet’ of God—that Jesus is the Son of God and God. This is indeed the reason why I gave him the challenge to resolve this. Question: Dowie had made a false claim as he could not prove his truth. And it is written in the Bible that false proph- ets would appear in the Latter Days. This being the case, what is the proof of the truth of your claim? Answer: The Promised Messiah as said: ‘Where it is written in the Bible that there would appear many false prophets, the coming of a true Prophet is not negated there. It is not writ- ten that the true Prophet would not come. On the contrary, appearance of false prophets itself implies that there would also be, among them, a true one. ’ Question: Jesus raised the dead. Thus, it is proven that a person 1 was raised. And the Bible was recorded in written form very soon after the death of Jesus. And the raising of the dead by 1. No name was mentioned here, but it is most likely in reference to the account of Lazarus in the Bible. See John 11:43–44. [Publisher]