Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 469
467 : They say! "The Merciful has gotten offspring. Now have ye done a monstrous thing ! Almost might the very heavens be rent thereat and the earth cleave asunder and mountains fall down in fragments, that they ascribe a son to God when it be- seemeth not the Merciful to beget a son. Verily there is none in the heavens and in the earth but shall approach the Merciful as a servant. XIX : 91 to 94. And that it may warn those who say, "God has begotten a Son. " No knowledge of this have either they or their fathers. A grievous saying to come out of their mouth. They speak no other than a lie. XVIII : 3, 4- Verily the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam; He created him of dust, then said to him, Be, and he was. The truth of thy Lord, so be not thou of those who doubt. Ill, 52. (The Christians admit that Jesus son of Mary peace be on him used to worship on the Hill of Olives, and the Gospels say that the prayed to God saying "0 my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt " (Math. 26-39) Lake 22 41 (Mark 14-35) again "0 my God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me " (Matt. 27-46) again on one occasion he has said to a person who called him good "Why callest thou me good? There is none good but One, that is God. " (Matt. 19: 16, 17). Then how absurd it is to believe in hirn as God or as the Son of God, or a Third of God! He is spoken in the Old and New Testaments as son of God but there is no peculiarity in this, as the Gracious God sometimes metaphorically uses such expressions e. . g. Adam son of God (Luke 3-38) Abraham, the eldest son of God (Jeremia 9) Solomon, son of God (Chron 22-9) all the Apostles sons of God (John 3-2) all men sons of God (Matt. 6-6, 18. )