Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 182
? 175 the Cross alive, Christianity is finished. Christians are coming to realize this. Mr. Criltondon, Secretary General of Inter-fellowship, University of London, observed in the course of a speech in the London Mosque on March 11, 1956, that if the Ahmadiyya viewpoint about the death of Jesus was correct, Christianity would be no more and that if the Messiah did not really die on the Cross, the entire foundation of the Church is demolished and the whole of its edifice must come down to earth. THE COMING MESSIAH If, therefore, the Messiah died a natural death, the innovation among Muslims meets a short shrift and their entire gossamer is torn to bits and the erroneous beliefs they have long been involved in are falsified. For, if the Messiah died his natural death, the coming Messiah must rise from among the Muhammadan people, and for Islam and Muslims a great objective is at once reared up. The nations, whose hopes are dead, die out. But nations, whose hopes live, can never perish. SIGNIFICANCE OF MAN If, it is said that the difference between man and God is unlimited and since the condition of man is different from that of God, therefore, the punishment that man could undergo eternally was equal to the Son of God