To Christian Friends
by the Promised Messiah [Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian]
The Light (Pakistan), 16th February 1944 Issue (Vol. 23, No. 4, p. 27)
“I say it plainly and truly that the true salvation of mankind has no relation to the crucifixion of Jesus, and even if a thousand Messiahs be crucified that object can never be attained. Only a perfect knowledge and a perfect love of God can deliver men from the bondage of sin. As to the death of Jesus upon the cross, it is not a true statement in the first place and has, moreover, no connection with the assuaging of sin. It is an obscure assertion with no foundation and no results. Evidence does not support it, nor does experience bear it out. The suicide of a Messiah has no conceivable relations to the remission of another man’s sins.”
“The true nature of redemption is that man should be freed from the hell of sin in this very world. No blood can purify you but the pure blood which the nourishment of assurance generates, and no cross can deliver you but the cross that you have to suffer in walking upon the right road.”