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orn. God showed them His Power in a new form of crea-
tion. He showed them that His Power is Infinite, and that
their salvation would come about only by submission to Him
and belief in Him. The illustration was presented in the vivid
manifestation of the creation of Jesus. This, perhaps, was
also an anticipation of the kind of miracles which Jesus was
to perform later on with the Help of God, the miracles which
were more or less of a medical nature.
It should be pointed out that this hypothetical interpreta-
tion of the birth of Jesus is not based on the authority of the
Quran or the Traditions of Muhammad. These four logically
possible forms of creation and the induction that the birth of
Jesus constitutes the fourth and final form are the personal
views of the writer and his own hypothesis. This personal
view has no bearing whatsoever on the authority or genuine-
ness of the Qur'an and the Traditions of Muhammad. Wheth-
er this hypothesis about the four kinds of creation is valid or
not, it does not in any way affect the Muslim's belief in the
truth of the Qur'an and its statement about the birth of Jesus
being the miraculous Will and Work of God. At any rate, the
whole point is worth pursuing.
Now if anyone wishes to call Jesus the Son of God or
God because he was created without the precedence of a hu-
man father, and because God Himself adopted him or acted
as his father, if this holds true the same thing should even be
more applicable to and more appropriate for Adam, who had