MUSLIMS
ANSWER TOWARDS THE DOCTRINE OF 4.1 The Church Invented the Trinity and Incarnation 4.3 The Answer of Maulana Rahmatullah Kairanvi 4.4 The Answer of Ustaz Ahmeed Deedat 4.5 The Answer of Imam Ibn Qayyim 4.6 The Answer of Imam ar Razi 4.7 The Answer of Imam Ibn Hazm 4.8 The Answer of Imam al-Qurthubi 4.9 The Answer of Imam Ibn Taimiyyah 4.10 Christians Answer On The Unwillingness of Jesus to Use Godly Attributes 4.11 The Answer of Imam Abu Abd Rahman Robert Squires
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But With God everything is possible: Matthew 19:26 (Christians Popular 4.13 The Answers of Imam Abu Abd Rahman Robert Squires 4.14 The Present Writer’s Comment 4.15 The Pope Defends the Trinity and Incarnation |
4.10 Christian’s answer on The Unwillingness of Jesus to use Godly Attributes.
Emphasizing on the same issue of Incarnation, many Christian scholars when being cornered in a debate with Muslims would say: “Yes, Yes! You Muslims are right when you say that Jesus did ungodly things [i.e. he got hungry, he had limited knowledge on certain things and etc], but that doesn’t mean that he wasn’t God, in fact he still is!” “For in Christ the fullness of God lives in a human form.” (Colossians 2:9, NLT). Muslims should understand that when God became man, the divine nature in God remains. The different attitude in Jesus (that is behaving like a human being) is just because of his unwillingness to use the godly attributes, which he possesses. Paul explained this in his epistle to the Philippians: “Though he was God, he did not demand and cling to his rights as God (or did not consider equality with God something to be grasped). He made himself nothing (or he laid aside his mighty power and glory), he took the humble position of a slave and appeared in human form.” (Philippians 2:9, NLT) Jesus made himself nothing or nobody like us human beings, but still retained himself the fullness of the Deity [meaning God]. He did that not because he had to, but because he chooses to, as part of God’s plan. Josh McDowell, the great Protestant evangelist says: “The word grasped does not imply that Jesus was grasping after equality, but rather, having equality, he did not grasp or hold on to His divine prerogatives while on earth. He lived His earthly life by the power of His Father. God the Son, in submission (by rank, not by nature) to God the Father, became man, took on a second real nature, a human nature, and then voluntarily performed the ultimate act of submission: sacrifice of Himself for the sins of the world.”[1]
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