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world has ever seen!" I have never forgotten this
dogmatizing statement. What he wanted to say was that
Jesus was either the Son of God or the greatest impostor.
If you accept the first hypothesis you are a Christian, a
Trinitarian; if the second, then you are an unbelieving
Jew. But we who accept neither of these two propositions
are naturally Muslims. We Muslims cannot accept either
of the two titles given to Jesus Christ in the
sense which the Churches and their unreliable Scriptures
pretend to ascribe to those appellations. Not alone is he
"the Son of God," and not alone "the Son of Man," for
if it be permitted to call God "Father," then not only Jesus,
but every prophet and righteous believer, is particularly a
world has ever seen!" I have never forgotten this
dogmatizing statement. What he wanted to say was that
Jesus was either the Son of God or the greatest impostor.
If you accept the first hypothesis you are a Christian, a
Trinitarian; if the second, then you are an unbelieving
Jew. But we who accept neither of these two propositions
are naturally Muslims. We Muslims cannot accept either
of the two titles given to Jesus Christ in the
sense which the Churches and their unreliable Scriptures
pretend to ascribe to those appellations. Not alone is he
"the Son of God," and not alone "the Son of Man," for
if it be permitted to call God "Father," then not only Jesus,
but every prophet and righteous believer, is particularly a