Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 145
? 138 (peace be on him) denies fore-knowledge of the future while such knowledge is an attribute of God the Great. When therefore Messiah says he has no knowledge of the hidden and no knowledge of the future events, he admits in other words that his use of the expression Son of God in respect of himself is not in its literal sense, but in a metaphoric sense; that is to say that all that he means thereby is that he is a favourite of God. The New Testament has also laid great stress on the expression "One God. " It is said in St. John: "How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?" (5:44) Christianity stands for Trinity but Jesus clearly uses the expression "the Only God" and says that those who honour one another but seek it not of the One God, they can never believe. "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. " (John 17:3) One more point has been clarified here. The Christians could argue out the quotation from St. John (5:44) with a specious answer that in their vocabulary the One God stands for tripartite godhead which comprises God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost; and they