4 COUNTER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
In Chapter 3, “Mirza Ghulam Ahmad: The Evidence Examined”, I documented what I see as unresolved
issues indicating the fallaciousness of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s claim of being a Divine apostle. Some of you might
have found my analysis valid and might agree that there is no satisfactory resolution of the issues. And yet, due to
some counter questions in your mind, you may not be willing or ready to conclude that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s
claim was false. In this chapter I try to answer some questions of this sort. Many of these were important to me
personally in my quest to arrive at the truth; I tried to find answers not just to record them in this document but for
my own sake.
This chapter contains the following sections:
- 4.1, Wasn’t His Coming Expected?
- 4.2, Doesn’t His Success Prove His Truth?
- 4.3, Summary of the Answers.
The table below summarizes the questions addressed in these sections. At the end of the chapter, in the last
section, I provide a table summarizing the answers. You may want to review one of these tables to decide which
sections and sub-sections may be of interest to you.
At several places in my answers to these questions I have included information on other claimants to Divine
office, for example, Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In general, my
objective in providing such information is to put Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the Ahmadiyya Movement in
perspective with other similar claimants and movements to show an essential similarity: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is
just one of many persons throughout history who have claimed Divine office, many of them asserting that their
coming was expected and many of them successfully starting a religious movement. Generally, the followers of such
claimants are oblivious of their flaws and falsities although these are usually obvious to their critics and opponents.
In keeping with this, Ahmadees readily see the issues with the other claimants but do not (or do not wish to) see the
issues with Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, even though his claims are just as tenuous.
Table 7 -- Questions Answered in Sections of Chapter 4
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