How can God have a son when He has no wife? Muslim Man asks, See Reno Answer
A young Muslim asked me a question saying ‘How can God have a son when He has no wife? You Christians are deceived.”
I have hidden his identity, to protect him from some overzealous Christians, but I will answer his question.
I have read the Quran and know that it rejects the Sonship of Christ in Quran 6:101, which in Arabic says:
بَدِيۡعُ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَالۡاَرۡضِ ؕ اَنّٰى يَكُوۡنُ لَهٗ وَلَدٌ وَّلَمۡ تَكُنۡ لَّهٗ صَاحِبَةٌ ؕ وَخَلَقَ كُلَّ شَىۡءٍ ۚ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَىۡءٍ عَلِيۡمٌ
And when translated to English, says:
“He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth. How can He have a son when He has had no mate? And He has created everything and He has full knowledge of all things.”
Let me ask the young man this question, who is the Father of Adam?
In Quran 2, beginning from Surah 30, we read about Adam. He had no Earthly Father.
So again, let me ask him, who is the Father of Adam?
Obviously God is the Father of Adam. The challenge is that those who do not believe Christ is the Son of God believe that God has to have a “mate” to have a Son.
God is all powerful. He can do anything, God has no Mate at all. He has no equal. He is God all alone. However, when Scripture says that Christ is the Son of God, you should realise that He was not made a Son due to the normal human processes of recreation.
John 1:14 says “The Word of God became flesh.” This is very important, because John (Yohanan) was Christ best friend.
And even the Quran agrees with John 1:14, in Quran 4:171, which describes Christ as كلمة الل, which when written in Roman Script is Kalimat Allah, which when translated to English means the Word of Allah, or the Word of God.
Neither the brain of the young man who asked the question, or my brain, is capable of understanding the processes by which God made His Word flesh.
But to Christ followers, that process makes God the Father of the Earthly Christ, in a similar way as He is the Father of Adam. Scripture actually refers to Christ as the “second” or “last” Adam in 1 Corinthians 15:45.
I hope you now understand? May God bless you.
Reno
