The Cat wrote:Ghalibkhastahaal wrote:When I wrote "Nobody was the father of Jesus", it was a clear declaration that Jesus did not have a father. He was no man's son and he was only his mother's son. That is why Quran addresses him as Ibn-e-Maryam.
Thanks for admitting that Isa (a title) is fatherless as God... being His Will (Yasha'a), His Word (Kalimatullah) and His Spirit (Rūĥun Minhu).
Ghalibkhastahaal wrote:If I wrote "Nobody killed the man", would you take it to mean that a person by the name Mr. Nobody, killed him? Was God known as Nobody? Is that God's name? Zero divinity means that man was not divine at all.... Quran projects Jesus simply as a man, the son of Mary.
The Koran rejects that Isa could be a biological son (-walid-) of God. But it still gives his human entity to be perfect, immaculate...
And yes, God is nobody, that is -not a body- but a transcient, unnamable entity. Thus, what 3.45 is telling us is that Isa, as a person,
was created in the similitude of Adam, to whom ALL angels like Gabriel had to bow. Then again, as a spirit, he is ONE WITH Allah
(Inna Mathala Īsá Inda Allāhi), or His will (Yasha'a). Yeshua is the one who can say: BE, so it is. As such and as per 2.116-117,
Isa is the true originator of the heaven and of the earth, for he's (also) the verb: BE, if only through 3.49!
In 3.45 the first similitude attest on what Isa IS (inda Allah), differentiated from his human birth, in the similitude of Adam, yet faultless!
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What Ibn Kathir and other Muslims have attempted to do is blur the meanings of 'Isa being a word from Allah and 'Isa being born from a virgin in the same manner that Adam was created. Who 'Isa is and how he was born are two very separate things. For example, in the "Book of Miscellany" from the Riyad-us-Saliheen we read: Prophet `Isa (Jesus) has been referred in the Qur'an as "Kalimatullah" (the Word of Allah) (4:171). What these words really mean is that he was born in an unusual manner, without being fathered by anyone, only on the express fiat of Allah.
The Quran states 'Isa is a spirit and word FROM Allah, not just "of" like a title of honor.
Again, as the Word from Allah, Isa is the spirit of truth lending the Koran to mankind. Like in the Nestorian christology, Isa is an
emanation from Allah (His prosopon) much like sunrays and heat come out from the sun. Nestorius precepts became troublesome
when translated 'substance' or 'consubstantiality' in Latin, for it's indeed a different subtle meaning. Anyhow, the prosopon concept
got into the Koran, but more specifically of an Hindu avatar: Isa is an avatar (bodily emanation) of Allah.
The more I study the Koran, the more I find utter links with Hinduism... like this concept of avatar (or prosopon)...
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In Hinduism, Avatar or Avatāra (Devanagari अवतार, Sanskrit for "descent" [viz., from heaven to earth]) refers to a deliberate descent of a deity (an incarnation of a deva (god) from heaven to earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being (i.e., Vishnu for Vaishnavites) and is mostly translated into English as "incarnation", but more accurately as "appearance" or "manifestation".
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It then becomes easy to understand that this appearance is what 4.157 talks about:
4.157:
And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah's messenger - they slew him not nor crucified him,
but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; ... they slew him not for certain.
Isa wasn't replaced on the cross by a substitution! His bodily appearance went away, while his real-self went to God where it belongs.
4.158-159:
But Allah took him up unto Himself.... and on the Day of Resurrection he will be a witness against them.
Then we can understand what 4.171 really talks about...
4.171:
The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was (only) a messenger of Allah, and His word which He conveyed
unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers, and say not "Three" - Cease!
Al-Masīĥu `Īsá Abnu Maryama Rasūlu Allāhi Wa Kalimatuhu 'Alqāhā 'Ilá Maryama
Wa Rūĥun Minhu Fa'āminū Billāhi Wa Rusulihi Wa Lā Taqūlū Thalāthatun.
Conceptual transposition:
Do not say 'three' (as in the Latin 'substancia') for the Messiah, born Isa son (abnu) of Mary, was an emissary of Allah: His Logos (Kalimatuhu),
conveyed into the flesh through Mary, yet His spirit (Ruhun Minhu). So believe in Allah and His messengers (since the Word did inspire them).
In short: Jesus is the incarnated message of Allah, His Mercy as a Revelation, all by himself, unto mankind (19.21).
Ghalibkhastahaal wrote:We have already discussed the rest.
Where you've been proven faulty on all grounds, let alone a liar of all trades!
Most unfortunately...