ArchivedVirgin Birth of JesusHello, As a Muslim, my answer would be this. CHapter 112: 1. Say: He is God, the One and Only; Quote: The nature of Allah is here indicated to us in a few words, such as we can understand. The qualities of Allah are described in numerous places elsewhere, e.g., in lix. 22-24, lxii. 1, and ii. 255. Here we are specially taught to avoid the pitfalls into which men and nations have fallen at various times in trying to understand Allah. The first thing we have to note is that His nature is so sublime, so far beyond our limited conceptions, that the best way in which we can realise Him is to feel that He is a Personality, "He", and not a mere abstract conception of philosophy. He is near us; He cares for us; we owe our existence to Him. Secondly, He is the One and Only God, the Only One to Whom worship is due; all other things or beings that we can think of are His creatures and in no way comparable to Him. Thirdly, He is Eternal, without beginning or end, Absolute, not limited by time or place or circumstance, the Reality. Fourthly, we must not think of Him as having a son or a father, for that would be to import animal qualities into our conception of Him. Fifthly, He is not like any other person or thing that we know or can imagine: His qualities and nature are unique. 2. God, the Eternal, Absolute Quote: Samad is difficult to translate by one word. I have used two, "Eternal" and "Absolute". The latter implies: (1) that absolute existence can only be predicated of Him; all other existence is temporal or conditional; (2) that He is dependent on no person or things, but all persons or things are dependent on Him, thus negativing the idea of gods and goddesses who ate and drank, wrangled and plotted, depended on the gifts of worshippers, etc. 3. He begetteth not, nor is He begotten Quote: This is to negative the Christian idea of the godhead, "the Father", "the only- begotten Son" etc. 4. And there is none like unto Him. Quote: This sums up the whole argument and warns us specially against Anthropomorphism, the tendency to conceive of Allah after our own pattern, an insidious tendency that creeps in at all times and among all peoples. SO basically if God says He begetteth not, nor is He begotten then the idea that Jesus is God or son of God is false. Just like I said, you can convince yourself that it is possible, but for a Muslim, he doesn't even come close to define the nature of God in any way. To us, Jesus is just like Adam, a word of God such as the whole world is a word of God. I might agree here but I will be troubled when I read John "15: You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one" I don't want to expand here since the subject might go out of hand and switch to what Jesus said and what not. But basically, the words that represent God does not mean it is God and the words you write on these forums are not you but are what you say. |
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