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already remarked that we the Jains cannot persuade ourselves to believe in a God in the sense of an extra-mundane Creator who caused the down-fall of mankind but afterwards taking pity on them dropped down from Heaven his only Son through whose crucifixion mankind was saved.
Some Christian Divines hold, however, that the pit-fall of Original Sin which caused the down fall of the entire human race was Satan
ing together? but dug out by the Devil. They teach that " God created all that is good and beautiful and it was Satan who brought in the Evil and spoiled man--the handi-work of God. But little do these Divines think that good and evil are but relative terms. Good can not be without evil and vice versa evil without good. There is a soul of goodness in things evil and conversely there is a soul of evil in things good. And when God created what is good he must, at the same time, have created the evil too. Similarly, when the Satan created the evil, he too must have created, at the same time, what is good. Now to veiw things as they stand, we cannot but logically infer that God
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