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162 Prophet Jesus (pbuh): A Prophet, Not A Son, of God

Of all my sons—and the LORD has given me many—he has chosen my
son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
He said to me: "Solomon your son is the one who will build my house and
my courts, for I have chosen him to be My son, and I will be his Lord. I will
establish his kingdom forever if he is unswerving in carrying out My com-
mands and laws, as is being done at this time." (1 Chronicles, 28:5-7)
All of the above statements make it clear that in the Jewish tradition,
the son of God was used to refer to people who took God as their friend, who
were sincere and devout. This is why it was used to refer to Prophet Jesus
(pbuh). Just as in the cases of Prophet Adam (pbuh) and Prophet

Solomon (pbuh), it is a metaphorical term that stems from Jewish tradi-
tions. It was chosen by the first Christians, who were Jewish and who
knew the Torah and lived by the Mosaic Law until becoming followers of
Prophet Jesus (pbuh), to express Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) respect, devotion,
and closeness to God.
Another piece of evidence showing that the term the son of God pro-
vides no basis for belief in the trinity concerns the use of the name of God
in the New Testament. In his paper "Who is Jesus? Do the creeds tell us

the truth about him?" Anthony Buzzard writes:
Thousands upon thousands of times in the Bible (someone has cal-
culated over 11,000 times), God is described by personal pronouns
in the singular (I, me, you, He, Him). These pronouns in all lan-
guages describe single persons, not three persons. There are thus
thousands of verses which tell us that the "only true God" is One
Person, not three. There is no place in the New Testament where the
word "God" can be proved to mean "God-in-Three-Persons." The
word God, therefore, in the Bible never means the Trinitarian God.
This would immediately suggest that the Trinitarian God is foreign
to the Bible. 62
As we have emphasized throughout this chapter, the term son was
widely employed in Jewish culture and bore no divine significance.