Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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there was not a city of that old world, before the time of Christ, which had not one or more temples, of different religions, attracting full public attention to the annual celebrations of the death and resurrection of a god." The resemblance in the Mithraic temples actually went so far that the resurrected god was hailed as "the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world." All this is certainly fatal to the historicity of Jesus himself who is the central figure in the New Testament. It is certainly most astonishing that God should not have revealed the existence of his son to any of the earlier or tater prophets, especially of such a son as Jesus who was to redeem the world. On the contrary we were distinctly told by God (Isaiah, xliii. ii):
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"L, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour." This is not contradicted but confirmed by Ecclesiastes (iv-8):
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There is one alone, and there is not a second, yea he hath neither child nor brother."
Is it the same God that is supposed to be the Father of Jesus who is speaking here? If so, why does he deny his having a child? And is it the same Supreme Divinity that the Hindus worship as Ishwara, the Muhomedans as Allah and the Parsis as Ahura Mazda ? If so, why did he not tell them, too, that he had a son? Islam succeeded Christianity after six centuries, and is said to be founded on revelation. How is it, then, that Mahomed denied the sonship of Jesus? There is sufficient food for reflection here in this circumustance. We must come to