Refutation of the Divinity of Christ — Page 23
Christian Arguments for the Divinity of Christ & Trinity 23 Christ, the son of Allah, is also a mere mortal and not God, then what word or phrase obliges us to understand son of Allah to mean the embodiment of God when it comes to the case of Christ, yet when the same phrase son of Allah is applied to others, we take it to simply mean a human being or the son of a human being? No ‘son of Allah’ expression is unequivocally proven to signify an embodiment of God, whereas Christ being the son of a mortal is proven from the following expressions: ▣ Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham— (Matthew 1:1) ▣ Christ is the Son of man—(Matthew 8:20) ▣ He is the son of Adam, a man—(Matthew 9:6) ▣ Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?—(Matthew 16:13) ▣ The Son of man came eating and drinking and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners—(Matthew 11:19) ▣ Is not this the carpenter’s son?—(Matthew 13:55) And it is established from the Gospels that Christ was the son of man and, likewise, the Christians do not deny that Christ was the son of man, but they simultaneously claim this as well, that this son of man was in reality that very God. When he entered his physical body, that very individual was called the Son of Allah. From this much detail, it has at least become clear that to refer to Christ as son of Allah , the literal meaning of ‘son’ is not meant because in that case it becomes necessary that Christ should issue forth from the sperm of God, and that Mary the Ever Truthful become the wife of God. Otherwise, these meanings are incorrect