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is allah (sw) one or three? - Islam Center

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(٧٥)IS ALLAH (S.W) ONE OR THREE?that food f<strong>or</strong>ty days and f<strong>or</strong>ty nights to H<strong>or</strong>eb, the mount ofGod.” (Kings1 19:7-8)VERSES THAT CONTRADICT JESUS’(PBUH)DIVINITYScholars have agreed that human deeds, which Jesus (PBUH)perf<strong>or</strong>med all h<strong>is</strong> life, prevent and refute calling him Allah (S.W) <strong>or</strong>the Son of Allah (S.W). It <strong>is</strong> impossible and inc<strong>or</strong>rect to believe thatAllah (S.W) was b<strong>or</strong>n, ate, circumc<strong>is</strong>ed, beaten, then died.It <strong>is</strong> unacceptable reasoning from Chr<strong>is</strong>tians to say that these deed<strong>sw</strong>ere d<strong>one</strong> by the human part of him and not the divine, f<strong>or</strong> they donot believe that Allah’s (S.W) incarnation in Jesus (PBUH) was like adress, which he can put on some times and take off at other times.What he (PBUH) did must be from the incarnated God, as they claim.Otherw<strong>is</strong>e, they have to agree that he <strong>is</strong> human, which <strong>is</strong> fact.In h<strong>is</strong> letter to Theodosius Caesar, Saint Kerl<strong>is</strong>s, the B<strong>is</strong>hop ofAlexandria, said, “We do not split the human part of Jesus from thedivine, n<strong>or</strong> do we split the w<strong>or</strong>d from the human part after thatunknown unity, which we cannot explain. We confess that Jesus <strong>is</strong>from two wills that united and became <strong>one</strong>, not by destroying the twonatures <strong>or</strong> by their mixture, but by an amazing and noble unity.”Pope Euthenasius said, “Th<strong>is</strong> <strong>one</strong> God <strong>is</strong> the Son of God spiritually,and he <strong>is</strong> the Son of man bodily, but that does not mean that the onlySon has two natures, <strong>one</strong> divine and <strong>one</strong> human, but <strong>one</strong> nature ofthe incarnated God’s W<strong>or</strong>d, to whom we prostrate, the same as weprostrate to Jesus.”Translating the sentence ‘th<strong>is</strong> <strong>is</strong> my beloved son’, Saint Gregarioussaid, “If I see that my son <strong>is</strong> hungry, thirsty, sleepy <strong>or</strong> tired…do notthink it <strong>is</strong> f<strong>or</strong> h<strong>is</strong> body without h<strong>is</strong> divinity. If you see him cure the ills,clean the lepers and make eyes of mud, do not think that he <strong>is</strong> doingso by h<strong>is</strong> divine part without the human part, because it <strong>is</strong> not thatthe great deeds are f<strong>or</strong> <strong>one</strong> and the humble <strong>one</strong>s f<strong>or</strong> another.” 1We will be able to understand th<strong>is</strong> – claimed- unity relationship,which <strong>is</strong> the unity of the human and the divine parts of Jesus(PBUH), when we realize two different deeds that Jesus perf<strong>or</strong>med,1 - The Frank opinion about the will and nature of Chr<strong>is</strong>t, Past<strong>or</strong> Gebrial abdel Maseeh,pp 59-60

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