Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 174
knows - and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. We serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit, says Paul (and he did not differ from Jesus in his teaching). We wonder whether Paul, knowing as he did the true story of the revival of Jesus and indeed having been taught in person by Jesus for three years, was telling a lie in order to promote the faith (would the world have accepted it without the story of the "dying god" with as much fervour as it finally did) - and was Paul justified in bending the truth or was he being very naughty, as Dr. Hugh Schonfield says of the later Christians who "were compelled to develop doctrines according to the special needs of a pagan environment”. Was he writing in an allegorical form? We should be profoundly disappointed if we were to find Paul to be the least bit dishonest. We are indeed relieved to see the answer to our problem in Romans. I was once alive apart from the law, he writes, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;. . . : For sin finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me. It is therefore dear for him to write that Jesus had died while still alive! Whether Jesus actually went to Kashmir after the crucifixion or died and was buried a little while after by the shores of the Dead Sea would certainly be interesting to prove either way. Without proof we must accept the word of the Promised Messiah. It remains for me to pray that God may move the Muslims to recognise Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a true son of Muhammad, who glorified his name and brought everything to the attention of the Western world, and to embrace his movement with arms 166