Christ said:

I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down. (Mathew)

Basic Creed held by Christians
Belief of the so-called "Christians", vide Encyclopaedia of Religions by Royston Pike, published in U.S.A, is as follows:

• It is the Religion introduced into the world by, and founded upon, Jesus Christ.

• Its Scriptures are the Bible, composed of the Old Testament and the New Testament. The latter is held to contain the prophetic fulfilment of the former, and Christianity is a complete and final revelation of God to man.

• The great majority believes in Trinity i.e. in One God in Three ___ God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. It is further held that Jesus Christ is God and yet Man, that he was incarnated in the womb of the virgin Mary, and that when He ascended into heaven, He left, as His ever-present witness in the world, the Holy Spirit, whom Christians hold as the Voice of God speaking in History and to the individual soul.

• They also believe that Adam was created originally perfect, but he fell from that state when he and his wife Eve ate of the tree of forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Because of that act of disobedience, they lost their potential immortality and were driven out of Paradise; and all their descrndants ___ all the human race ___ have inherited "original sin", of which the inevitable fruits are death. But those who believe in Christ as the "Second Adam", as the Redeemer, who took upon himself human flesh and died as a recompense for our sins ___ those who accept his offered sacrifice are saved to life eternal.

The Truth

• Jesus Christ founded no religion. However, a religion exists in his name in the world.

• The "Christians" formally believe that the Bible, both the Old Testament and the New Testament are God-inspired, but they also believe that they are not required to practise the commandments given in them. They have accepted the advice of Paul who said that belief in Jesus Christ, as son of God, was enough for salvation and that it was futile to act on Law. Thus they have cast away the Bible from life and live free from all obligations.

• Their belief that the New Testament is fulfilment of the Old is correct only in the sense that it is the last warning to Once God’s chosen people, the Children of Israel, before ending prophethood among them, and deciding their destruction and dispersal on earth, but it is not the final message for humanity.

• The idea of Trinity is obnoxious. While glorifying Jesus, who was so badly treated by the Jews, the Christians have exceeded all limits. They have failed to appreciate the greatness of God who created this huge and perfect universe of which man is a small part. For them it is a matter of blind faith, otherwise it is unintelligible to the most learned among them.

• The idea of Holy Spirit as a guide, without a written code, means deceiving the self. After shedding the Law and refusing to accept coming of a Prophet after Christ, they have tried to justify their stand in this imaginary way.

• The idea of travelling of Adam’s sin in his descendants and dependence of its forgiveness on crucifixion of ‘Son of God’ is nowhere mentioned in the Old Testament or the Gospels. It is a later concoction to justify crucifixion and carries no sense. Torah (Genesis, chapter 3) says that Eve shall suffer from pangs of birth, and Adam shall earn his living through toil and sweat. It says nothing more.
  

• The terms "father" and "son" are frequently used in the Gospels. Even the Jews who believe in perfect unity of God asked Jusus, ‘are you the son of God?’ It appears that the word ‘father’ used for God is intended to indicate that God is very kind, more kind than a father is to his son. But God has also the other attributes. He destroys wicked people, as He did with Jews soon after Christ. The word ‘son’ means a specially chosen person with special attributes. The Quran has prohibited the use of these words.

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The Jews
Jesus Christ was born among the Jews, so let us, first of all, know something about the Jews.

Originally called the Hebrews, "the Jews" are the descendants of Abraham, "the father of the faithful" ___ Jews, Christians and Muslims. Born in the city of Ur, in Southern Mesopotemia (Iraq), he migrated to Canaan or Palestine. He had two sons, Ishmael and Isaac. Arabs, particularly the Quresh, are descendants of Ishmael. The last Messenger of God, Muhammad (peace upon him) was born among them.

Isaac’s son Jacob, called Israel, is the forefather of the Jews. He entered Egypt with his twelve sons about 1400 BC with the help of his son, Joseph, who had found good luck with the Pharaoh. They flourished there for sometime but were then enslaved by the Egyptians and put to hard labour. Moses brought them out of Egypt about 1200 BC and, after a wandering of forty years, and after the death of Moses, they captured Palestine.

David (died 1000 BC) was their first great king to whom Psalms (Zaboor) were revealed. His son, Solomon, further strengthened the kingdom and built the sacred Temple, their historic centre of worship, at Jerusalem. After his death, kingdom was divided into two parts. Israel in the North was inhabited by ten tribes, and idol-worship was practised there. Judaea in the South had the Temple and was inhabited by two tribes. This was their golden period.

By 600 BC their first dispersal started, when they were conquered by Nebuchadnezzer and deported to Babylone. In 586 BC he destroyed Jerusalem along with the Temple. After 50 years, Cyrus, king of Persia, conquered Babylon and permitted the Jews to return to Jerusalem and to rebuild the Temple which they did. The Temple was destroyed second time by Assyrians in 186 BC. Then came the Roman occupation. The building of the Temple Started for the third time in 20 BC and was completed in 64 AD, but only six years after i.e. in 70 AD, it was burnt by the Romans and the Jews were slaughtered and banished. This was their second dispersal. (The Quran mentions these two big calamities in Sura 17).

Since then they have been wandering in the world, tortured and expelled from place to place. However, after the defeat of Turks in the first world war, Britain permitted them to make Palestine their home. In 1948 they declared the establishment of the Jewish state in the name of Israel, and since then the area is in a constant turmoil.

They always believed that they will one day return to Jerusalem, and David’s throne will be restored to them.

Has that happened is yet to be seen? Muslims believe that one day the Jews will be completely annihilated. The Holy Quran says:

"Behold, thy Lord proclaimed that He would raise upon them (the Jews), till the Day of Resurrection, those who would afflict them with evil chatisement; thy Lord is surely swift in retribution, and He is surely Forgiving and Merciful. And We have cut them up in communities over the earth, some of them are righteous and some of them are otherwise; and We try them with good things and bad things, that haply they will return (to God), (7:167-168).

(This statement has remained true in history).

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