The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 57
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. CHRISTIANS INVITED TO ISLAM. Hadhrat Ahmad, the Promised Messiah has written a great deal about Christianity in his voluminous writings and speeches. He reminded Christians about their grave error of belief that Jesus is Son of God and in fact God himself. The Holy Quran gives warning of severe punishment to Christians who thus believe. At one place The. Holy Quran warns that the heavens might burst asunder because they say that Gracious God has taken unto Himself a son. . Hadhrat Ahmad explained that Jesus was a humble man and the last Israelite prophet who was a follower of the Mosaic law and tradition and nothing more. His teachings were like the teachings of earlier Israelite prophets and some of them were superior to him in their accomplishments. Jesus believed in the unity of God, like all prophets and he considered his mission confined to the Israelites. On reading, the Gospels, his being a humble human being is obvious at every step. He denied knowledge of hidden things and prayed to God in the Garden of Gethesemane with great anguish to be delivered from his enemies who were planning his death by crucifixion. While on the cross and in pain he cried aloud, 'O God, O God why have you forsaken me!" It is obvious that he did not want to die the accursed death on the cross. Yet according to the Gospels Jesus died on the cross. Can God ever die? Are not all characteristics of Jesus those of a human being? If he showed some miracles, so had prophets before him. . Christians in their glorification of Jesus blundered so much that they declared him to be Son of God and also God -- the Lord and. Creator of the Universe. Polytheists of earlier ages had also done so. . Hindus believe that Krishna and Rama Chandra were God incarnate. . Many followers of Buddha believe that he was God incarnate. . Hadhrat Ahmad explained that the title, 'Son of God' is only a metaphorical statement by which Jesus is meant 'Beloved of God'. 57