Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 110
? 103 sin, these words characterise Muhammad the Prophet of Allah (peace and the blessing of Allah be on him) as the saviour of mankind, and it has been claimed that through allegiance to him mankind can save itself from death which is the crop of sin. WHY JESUS WAS SINGLED OUT FOR CROSS? Another question that arises about the atonement is that with godhead being tripartite, why the Messiah was singled out for atonement? Granted that Adam had sinned, granted that the sin of Adam was transmitted through heredity to his children, even though it is a totally silly assumption. Also, granted that hereditary sin is susceptible of no remedy (another silly idea) and that it called for an external remedial measure. Further granted that the atonement is the only remedy that would wash off hereditary sin (yet another foolish idea); though such a remedy would fit in with the idiom in usage in our country, namely "hit the knee, burst the eye. " (Someone, it is said, was hit on the knee and started wailing that his eye had been hurt). To say that sin could not be taken away from the world but the hanging of the Messiah by the Cross took it away, amounts to the same thing. The whole argument is unsound; its parts being in no way inter-related. But