Truth About the Split — Page 34
34 proving any resemblance between my party and those followers of Jesus as who unduly magnified his rank, furnish rather an additional proof of the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as. To further elucidate this point, I would repeat that the verses go to show that the enemies of Jesus as accused him of having 'made himself a god' (to be Son of God meant to the Jews the same as to be God). In reply Jesus as asked them whether it was not written in the Bible that they (the Prophets) were gods. If therefore men who were only Prophets had been called gods, how could it be a blasphemy to call oneself Son of God? From this Maulawi Muhammad Ali concludes, and he is right in his conclusion, that Jesus as called himself 'son of God' in one sense while his enemies accused him of having claimed godhood in another sense of the word. As a matter of fact, Jesus as claimed to be god in the same sense in which the Prophets before him were called gods. As Maulawi Muhammad Ali writes on page 5 of The Split , "He (Jesus as ) says that before him those who received the word of God were called gods though they were men". Let us now look at the case of the Promised Messiah as. He himself says that his enemies accused him of having claimed prophethood in the sense of being the founder of a new Law. (Vide letter