The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 50
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. JESUS MIGRATED TO INDIA. The Promised Messiah believed Jesus to be a true prophet of. God but a human being as the Holy Quran stresses. As the majority of orthodox Muslims have developed misunderstandings about Jesus,. Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad removed these erroneous ideas and explained that the Holy Quran clearly and emphatically states that. Jesus had died a natural death, not on the cross but later on. He laid great stress on the fact that Jesus had died a natural death and did not die on the cross, contrary to the belief of Christians. It is a recurrent theme in his books. He explained that Jesus was taken down from the cross, unconscious but alive. He was probably mistaken as dead at the time. No doubt the Gospels state that he had died on the cross but they are not fully reliable. All scholars agree that the Gospels are interpolated and there are many questions raised about their authenticity. . To prove his point that Jesus did not die on the cross, the. Promised Messiah offered forceful and logical arguments. We shall attempt to summarize his arguments, with the addition of a few historical points. . The authors of the Gospels state that Jesus died on the cross as a belief and not as an observation like an eyewitness account. None of disciples were present at crucifixion. All the Gospels were written at a time when the religion of Jesus had undergone major changes. A new Christology had evolved, with emphasis on the death of Jesus on the cross, whose chief architect was St. Paul. . At Gethesmane, Jesus fell to the ground and with great anguish prayed fervently that God may save him from death on the cross. Jesus did not want to die as his mission was not yet complete and moreover it would have proven to the Jews that he was a false prophet. On the cross in pain and despair, Jesus cried out to be saved. . God did not abandon him and brought about such circumstances that. Jesus was saved from death on the cross. His prayers were heard. 50