Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 180
? 173 as cunning and foxy for his having written off the public debt of Rs. 1,50,000 on receipt of a payment of Rupees 1½ from his son. Similarly, the version of atonement that is put forward, far from mitigating the blame on God, only enhances it and such tricks hardly prove Him to be just; on the contrary He is proved to be unjust besides being a cunning trickster. If that was all He had intended. doing, why keep him in hell even for a day and a half? DID MESSIAH OFFER ATONEMENT? Taking for granted all the claims of Christians that redemption was a possibility and that Messiah was the Son of God, the question that engages our attention is whether it has been proved that Messiah did really offer the sacrifice which could be called adequate for purposes of redemption. Messiah's coming down the Cross alive is a concept which carries in it the death of Christianity. If the Messiah came down the Cross alive, Christianity is finished totally and if the Messiah died a natural death after the incident of the Cross, then all the wrong beliefs that are current among non-Ahmadis would die out. In other words, the Messiah's coming down the Cross alive puts an end to Christianity and his natural death closes the chapter of innovation in Islam. If Christianity fades out, it would mean life for Islam and if innovation dies, then too there is life for Islam.