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go into a swoon that he might be taken for dead. . Ahmad says in prayer: Our beloved Allah, save the Christians from worshipping a man as God and fulfil the promises of. Thy prophets for this age. Lift the wounded ones from the thorns. . Purify them in the fountain of Thy Salvation which lies only in. Thy knowledge and Thy love. There is no salvation in the blood of man. Release them, therefore, from the false dogmas of crucifixion and the blood of Jesus. . Almighty God, hear me for their benefit, and enlighten their hearts with heavenly light, so that they may see Thee. Do not destroy them as Thou didst in the days of Noah. Have mercy on them. Open their hearts so that they may accept the truth. . Jesus shed his blood, as we have seen, to establish the truth of his words, and therein lies salvation. But salvation, or the eternal life, still has to be earned individually. Today not all. Christians believe Jesus was God. . Indeed it is a glorious thing to know Jesus survived; for here is greater proof of God than ever in that God protected him and the prophecies were proved true. Jesus suffered only because of the faithlessness of people of his time, not because of God. '. In believing Jesus died on the cross, only half the story is told, for the prophecy of his survival as shown by reference to². Jonah is not fulfilled. The Spirit of every righteous person may ascend to heaven. . In believing that Jesus ascended in his body to heaven we are only pretending in order to glorify him. But if we see in Jesus a man who set out to find God and worked closely with Him to fulfil the prophecies, thereby proving the existence of God, such a man we can truly glorify; we can glorify him without reservation. . There are only two possibilities to be considered concerning the mysterious disappearance of Jesus. First, that Jesus died on the cross and afterwards appeared in spirit to his disciples, as. Moses and Elijah had appeared to him. Secondly, that Jesus was delivered from his ordeal and appeared to his disciples in person. . The answer is to be found in his own words. Luke tells us that when Jesus appeared to his disciples they were frightened 1. The Christian saying 'God was put upon the cross' is easier to understand when we contemplate that Jesus was the representative of God, or. God's Spirit. Therefore God was put upon the cross. 2. The only sign Jesus gave: a prophecy using the story of Jonah where. Jonah emerges alive from his ordeal. 122