03-30-2006, 07:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2006, 07:20 AM by Don Singleton.)
Quote:Just because God Almitghy is able to send <b>' his son' </b> would that mean to you that He<b> 'can really’ </b> do such thing? No of course not.
Since God is the source of justice, mercy and truth. God can never be thought of as doing an ungodly act. Hence we cannot imagine God telling a lie, being unjust, making a mistake, forgetting things, <b>or having any such human failings.</b> Similarly God <b>can do injustice if He chooses to</b>, <b>but He will never do it </b> because being unjust is an ungodly act. this is a foolish logic that some people say that God can do ANYTHING... of course He can if he chooses to do so but anything that He is going to do must be GODLY thing.
<b>You are very close to understanding why he had to send his Son. As you indicated, as God he canot make a mistake but the people He created were being lured into Sin by Satan, who He created as well. He made compacts with the people, such as were done with Moses, and the people were not following those compacts. As you said, He is the source of Justice and Mercy, but since He cannot make a mistake He could not just say" "Well that compact was too hard, here is an easier one, and if you follow it, you will still have eternal life". But as John 3:16 says: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." In other words He did not change the rules; but He did send His Son, who was totally without sin, and allowed His Son to take upon Himself the penalty of everyone's sin. All they had to do was accept this gift from God's Son. </b>
Quote:also God can send some kind of 'son' if He chooses so, but the moment He do that, He ceases to be God. He will not be God anymore, <b>The act of begetting is a physical act </b> and such act is against God’s nature. The Qur’an 19:35 says:
"It is not befitting to (the majesty of) Allah that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him! When He determines a matter He only says to it <b>"Be," and it is." </b> (Maryam 19:35)
<b>If God is Supreme, then who can say what he can or should do? If by the act of begetting being a physical act you are referring to sex, then I will agree with you, however he did not have sex with the Virgin Mary. He sent his seed into her womb by saying that it be done. Our Holy Book says he sent the Holy Spirit to put the seed in her, but it was not through the act of copulation.</b>