lacks little to turn it into a materialisation. It is no surprise therefore that Gandhi took him as his mentor when he exercised the silent power of passive resistance. Islam with its new Messiah, did not drop him either. In fact they continued with great respect and dignified attribution to his greatness, to hold him as the Messiah of the end of times. The very term that Christians themselves hold to dearly as the final day of atonement. They did it with one very important “historical” exception. They did not accept his death on the cross but rather that of another in his place. Taking the Jesus and Barabas connotation it makes one wonder, but Islam has done this before with the figure of Isaac being sacrificed by Abraham changed for that of Ishmael who was not the first born even by their own recognition so it is reasonably safe to assume that that is false. They had a good reason for bending the truth and that is that like his son was to do later on, Abraham passed his wife over to a Royal harem with all that could happen there. Islam therefore is not happy about any issue that might cast doubt on the parenthood. They therefore go for the love child that Abraham had of his servant Haggai. Islamic religious interpreters also state that Jesus was laughing at the mistake which saves his life and that does not hold true either and totally out of context if we are to retrieve a real person from the fragments of texts available. The scribes of Islam, may well have been in contact with or descended from the Nestorians or the early Johannites who may well have held that Jesus did not die on that cross in Jerusalem, but who may have been unaware of any “suspicious” circumstances surrounding his revival.
Wasted sacrifice