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like them. The Qur'an (23/33) relates that the people of Noah said about him, "This is
not but a man like yourselves. He eats of that from which you eat and drinks
of what you drink." The Qur'an (25/7) also says about the Arabs in whose midst
Prophet Muhammad appeared, "And they say, 'What is this messenger that eats
food and walks in the markets?'" As for those who ascribe divinity to Prophet Jesus,
we find that they took divergence to a whole new level by degrading God Almighty and
considering Him a human who eats food!!
The Qur'an (5/72) strongly rejects the doctrine of Christ's divinity "They are
unbelievers who say, 'Allah is the Messiah, Son of Mary,' while the Messiah
said, 'O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.' Indeed, he
who associates others with Allah – Allah has forbidden him Paradise, and his
refuge shall be the Fire; and the wrongdoers shall have no helpers."
Allah refutes the claim of those who use the miraculous birth of Jesus without a father to
ascribe divine attributes to him. As the Qur'an (3/59) states, "Indeed, the example of
Jesus in the sight of Allah is like that of Adam. He created Him from dust; then
He said to him, 'Be,' and he was."[5]
The Bible even says about the priest Melchizedek that he is "without father, without
mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of
life." (Hebrews7/3) Did anyone then deify him besides God? Moreover, If God is able to
create people from stones just as Christ said, "and do not think to say to yourselves,
'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up
children to Abraham from these stones" (Matthew3/9), He is all the more able to
bring into being a man from a woman without any intercourse whatsoever.
Christ is definitely only a prophet and messenger sent by God to invite the children of
Israel to worship Him alone and thus he is by no means equal God. When Christ describes
himself as lacking ability, "I can of Myself do nothing" (John 5/30), he says about
God, "for with God all things are possible." (Mark10/27)
Similarly, when Christ "was in all points tempted as we are" (Hebrews 4/15),
God "cannot be tempted by evil." (James 1/13)
Also, if the Gospels claim that Christ was tried before Herod, Pilate and the priests, God
cannot be tried: "For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And who is that
shepherd Who will withstand Me?" (Jeremiah 49/19). If Christ sleeps, as in Matthew
8/24, Luke 8/23 and Mark 4/38, God does not sleep, as in Psalm 121/4. If Christ becomes