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Section Four: the Doctrine of Crucifixion and Redemption and how to refute it:
Christians believe in the “inherited sin”: namely, every human being is born sinful because our father Adam and our mother Eve disobeyed their Lord by eating from the forbidden tree and thereby they became sinful and consequently, Adam, his wife and their descendants all deserve the punishment in the Hereafter, which is Divine Justice. But Mercy, the Divine Attribute of Allah (SWT) entails forgiveness. Hence we have a contradiction between Allah’s Justice and His Mercy and that required something that would combine justice and mercy. The solution was redemption through which both the law of justice and that of mercy are fulfilled. But the redeemer should be pure and undefiled, and there is none in the universe that is pure and undefiled but Allah (SWT). But Allah (SWT) is too exalted to be a redeemer, so His Will decreed that He assume the form a body in which both divinity and mortality or humanity unite, i.e. a body that would be both divine and human simultaneously. So divinity and humanity united in the womb of the Virgin Mary to produce a perfect human being, for he was her son and Allah was in the body a perfect god. All this was represented by Christ, who came to “redeem” his creatures.
That was redemption. Then this god was offered as “sacrifice” to be slaughtered for the sake of freeing mankind from the crime of sinning. For this purpose Christ died on the Cross—and that was Crucifixion.
All that was the Atonement for the sins of mankind and saving them from destruction—and that is Salvation. Since all human beings are sinful because of the sin of he father Adam and their mother Eve, they are perishable and nothing can save them from this destruction except their belief in Christ “the Redeemer”.[1] [1] Shalabi, ‘Abdul-Wadud, op. cit., pp. 28-30 (adapted) |