ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY

These sayings leave no doubt in our minds as to
what this phrase meant for Jesus. In view of this,
there is no justification of regarding Jesus as the Son
of God, in an exclusive or unique sense. Jesus most-
ly called himself a "son of man", but when he re-
ferred to himself as a "son of God", it was no doubt
in the same sense in which Adam, Israel, David and
Solomon had been called the sons of God before him
and in which he himself had spoken of those who
had love in their hearts and lived in peace with their
fellowmen as "sons of God". The following remarks
of Jesus will further show that it was only in a meta-
pliorical sense that he called himself a son of God:
"Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law,
I said, Ye are gods? If He called them gods, unto
whom the word of God came, and the scripture can-
not be broken ; say ye of him whom the Father hath
sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphem-
est; because I said I am the son of God." (John