10:34-36)
Jesus was obviously referring to Psalms 82: verses
6 and 7:" I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are
children of the most High. But ye shail die like men
and fall like one of the princes.” As the Judges and
prophets of old were called “gods” only in a Meta-
phorical sense, so Jesus called himself a “son of
God” in the same sense. It is clear that for Jesus the
term “son of God ‘ carried no particular import other
than the idiom of the Bible permitted. There is no
case for singling Jesus out as the Son of God in a
special or literal sense, as the Christians have done.
The Holy Quran in a very forceful language rejects
tied dogma that Jesus was the Son of God in a liter-
al or unique sense. It says :
“And they say: God hath taken unto Himself a Son.
Be He Glorified! Nay, but whatsoever is in the heav-
en and the earth is His. All are subservient unto
Him” (2:116) “It befitteth not (the Majesty) of God
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