ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY
"Since Christ. God and man, has taken upon Him-
self our sins (by His death on the cross) in order to
atone for them by giving satisfaction to God's out-
raged justice, He is the Mediator between God and
man."1
This dogma is not only a denia1 of the mercy of
God but also of His justice. To demand the price of
blood in order to forgive the sins of men is to show a
complete lack of mercy, and to punish a man who is
not guilty for the sins of others. whether the former
is willing or not, is the height of injustice.
Christian apologists try to defend this by saying
that Jesus Christ willingly suffered death to pay the
price for the sins of men. To this our reply is :
Pirstly, it is not historically correct to say that, Je-
sus had come to die willingly and deliberately for
the sins of read in the Bible that he did not wish to
die on the cross.
- J.F. De Groot. Catholic Teaching, P.162.
