The Truth About Salvation — Page 28
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 28 even thieves refrain from stealing in the presence of the police. Similarly, a religion that can visualise God, can lead to salvation from sin. One who follows such a religion would continue to commit sins because of their lack of comprehensive awareness, but upon acquiring knowledge of their consequences they would eventually start refraining from wrongdoing, and when they would attain complete knowledge of this, they would eschew sin altogether. The only religion conforming to this is Islam. Firstly, Islam proves the existence of God through rational arguments. Furthermore, in every era, there have been followers of Islam who have shown signs to prove the existence of God Almighty. All the prophets of the past showed signs to prove the existence of a living God. According to Christianity, after the Messiah as , no one was able to achieve this and the world stopped giving birth to such people, and so the concept of atonement was introduced. Yet, the advent of prophets has always been the most substantive way of proving the existence of a living God, and it is the prophets who show the path to salvation for humankind. PEOPLE ATTAINED SALVATION EVEN BEFORE THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST Was salvation unattainable in the time of Moses as when