Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 132
? 125 told His servants that they were gods). “If he called them gods unto whom the word of God came and the Scripture cannot be broken; say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God. " The Messiah (peace be on him) said that they had neither become Gods nor heretics when God said in the Bible that they were Gods; and yet only the word son had been used regarding him and they called him a heretic. When the appellation God had been used in respect of people before him and they did not become heretics thereby but, on the contrary, it was interpreted as having been used as a metaphor, why then in his case the title of son had become such a heinous offence as to make him a heretic in their eyes. Here the Messiah (peace be on him) clearly admits that the word son used in the Bible about him does not carry a literal sense, for, the expression ‘God' had been used in respect of many other people in the same book and they had not become Gods in the eyes of Jews nor even heretics; and since in spite of this appellation, they did not accept them as Gods nor did they declare them as heretics, why did they then ascribe to him a claim to be God on his using the same expression in his favour and called him heretic and fit for being stoned, he asked. "If I do not the works of my father, believe me not,"