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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

and there are also ill-intentioned ones. Therefore, it is a terrible viola-
tion of good conscience to maintain that God took the soul of a holy
servant beloved of Him because of the irresponsible behavior, sins and
excesses of some of those who came after him; it is a failure to proper-
ly appreciate God. It is a matter of great urgency for our sincere
Christian brothers to realize the major error here.

Jesus (pbuh) did not die

Another important point that completely rebuffs the idea in ques-
tion, as we have seen in detail above, is the fact that Jesus did not die.
Jesus was raised into the Presence of God. He is alive in body and
spirit and was protected and taken into the heavens in a state of

sleep. By itself this fact totally rebuffs the claim that "Jesus died as a
redeemer of sins."
Those who fail to properly avoid sin by incorrectly imagining that
Jesus' death will redeem their sins, who are flexible when it comes to
what God has made unlawful, or who do not regard abiding by the
obligations imposed by the religion of which they are a member as a
matter of importance are making a grave error. Like everyone else,
their every deed is written down. And everything they do will be held
before them in the hereafter.

Sins are cleansed by repentance and

regret, not by death

It is Almighty God Who creates people in this world, determines
a destiny for them and also creates the environment of the test. Of
course, God is He Who best knows His servants. He has created events
and instruments by which they will be tested in this world.
Human beings, on the other hand, are created weak and ignorant.
They can easily fall into error, make mistakes, forget the truth despite

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