 and ascended to Heaven to take his seat on the right hand of the Most High God: this was the basic belief where the super-structure of the Church Christianity was constructed. But the Religion of the Church was entirely distinct from the Religion of Jesus. Jesus was nothing more than a Hebrew Prophet who laid stress on the fulfilment of the law and the Prophets; but the Religion of the Church had depicted him as a deity of the ancient world who was crucified like other sun-goods for the sins of human race, who rose from the dead and ascended to Heaven. Jesus had come to demolish Paganism and not to reproduce it under his own name. The Holy Quran had denounced this Mystery Cult of the Church in strong terms. But it was for the Promised Messiah to give it the final overthrow.
Bahaullah, instead of setting himself against this polytheistic teaching of the Church, gave" it a new strength by making a similar claimhimself, that the Most High God had assumed human form in the flesh of Bahaullah, as Hehad done previously in the shape of Jesus, to propitiate for the sins of human race. Wrotehe in his Kitab al-Aqdas :
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"Allah, speaking from the great prison, bears witness to the fact that there is no god but he. He is, of a truth, the Creator of all things and all names. He has suffered all these troubles to atone for the sins of human race, and give them new, eternal life." Is it not the same doctrine of Atonement on which stands the whole fabric of the Church teaching? We read in the well-known Bahai book, Bahaullah and theNew Era: ·'.Jesus was a mediator, and the Christians were certainly on the right in believing that his advent was indeed the advent of the Most High God. In his face they saw the face of the Divine Being, and through his lips they heard the voice of the Supreme Being, Bahaullah has said that by the coming of the Lord of Hosts, the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, which is to take place in the last age'
according to the teachings of all prophets, is meant nothing else but that the Most High God will Himself appear on the stage of the world in human form, much in the same way as He has done previously through the flesh of Jesus the Christ. He has now come with that most perfect and most brilliant Manifestation for the reception of which Jesus and all the prophets had come to prepare the minds of the people." Turn read: over
"Verily I am that Heaven whereto ed the son of Mary."
That is to say, the Heaven towards which ascended the son of Mary, was Bahaullah himself who was in the physical world the incarnation of the Divine Being, and on the Heaven, God the Father to whom ascended God the Son in full glory. It was for this reason that Dr. Khairullah boosted Bahaullah as God the Father before the Christians of America, and his son Abbas Effendi as God the Son, i.e. Jesns, son of Mary. This happened in 1892 C.E., two years after Hadzrat Ghulam Ahmad had proclaimed himself as the Promised Messiah.
59 Hadzrat Mirza Sahib, on the other hand, dealt such a deadly blow to the Religion of the Cross that it is no longer a living force that had for centuries, swayed the East and the West. The Church doctrine of the Divinity of Jesus Christ and the washing away of man's sins with his blood, have been smashed so severely that a minister of the Church shudders in his shoes as soon as he comes to know that the man whom he is speaking to, is a follower of Hadzra.t Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Hadzrat Mirza Sahib has disproved and dispoiled the theory of Incarnation which constitutes not only a contempt of the Supreme Being but also betrays a lamentable ignorance of his attributes and knowledge, so overwhelmingly that the Religion of the Church has, since then, been moving away and receding from this Pagan principle. Wrote the Church Times of London in 1926: The second fundamental doctrine of Christian theology is the Incarnation. That great term in the creed of Christendom has denoted the experiences under human conditions of a Person who is Eternal. It signifies that the very God live