Can onyone help me debunk or refute this article I don't mean the whole article just this part of it thank you. This article seems to be saying Jesus must be God because of the virgin birth I don't want to post the link because I disagree with the Answering Islam people and it is a anti Islam website I don't think people here would want me posting the link to their website.
Quran Inconsistency
Is Jesus Like Adam?
Sam Shamoun
The Quran claims that Jesus’ similitude, or likeness, before God is like that of Adam whom he created from dust by his creative command:
Truly, the likeness of Jesus, in God's sight, is as Adam's likeness; He created him of dust, then said He unto him, 'Be,' and he was. S. 3:59
Muslims see this as a rather impressive refutation of the Christian arguments for the uniqueness of the Lord Jesus. However, on closer inspection this a rather poor response to the Christian claims for the eternal majesty of God’s Son.
In the first place, the Quran is not clear on how Allah created Adam. The above reference claims that Allah spoke and created him from dust. Yet other references assert that Allah actually fashioned Adam from clay with his own hands and breathed his spirit into him:
When thy Lord said to the angels, 'See, I am creating a mortal of a clay. When I have shaped him, and breathed My spirit in him, fall you down, bowing before him!' Then the angels bowed themselves all together, save Iblis; he waxed proud, and was one of the unbelievers. Said He, 'Iblis, what prevented thee to bow thyself before that I created with My own hands? Hast thou waxed proud, or art thou of the lofty ones?' S. 38:71-75
Q. 3:59 is actually formulated in a rather strange and confusing manner, even without comparing it with other passages. Note that it says that Allah created him of dust and THEN spoke the word "Be!" to him. Does this mean that Adam didn’t have a being, didn’t exist until Allah said "Be!"? He obviously did, since Allah already created him from dust. Then why would Allah even need to say "Be!" after he had already created him? Does the "Be!" refer to Allah giving life to Adam’s lifeless body? If so, why did he breathe his spirit into Adam? Wasn’t it for the purpose of animating his body? Then why would he need to say "Be!"?
In light of the foregoing what are we supposed to believe about the creation of the first man? Did Allah create him with his own hands from clay, from stinking mud as another verse says, and then breathe the spirit of life into his body? Or did Allah merely speak life into him after fashioning him out of dust?
For more on this point please see
this article.
Secondly and more importantly, the Quran itself is a witness against its own assertion of Adam being similar to Jesus. The Quran ascribes to Jesus certain roles and characteristics which not only demonstrate his vast superiority to Adam, but which also elevate him higher than any other prophet or messenger.
Here are a host of qualities and functions that both the Quran and Islamic literature assign to Jesus which place him far above and beyond Adam.
1. Jesus was born of a virgin, Adam was not.
The Quran emphatically affirms Jesus' virgin birth:
'Lord,' said Mary, 'how shall I have a son seeing no mortal has touched me?' 'Even so,' God said, God creates what He will. When He decrees a thing He does but say to it "Be," and it is. S. 3:47
And mention in the Book Mary when she withdrew from her people to an eastern place, and she took a veil apart from them; then We sent unto her Our Spirit that presented himself to her a man without fault. She said, 'I take refuge in the All-merciful from thee! If thou fearest God ... He said, 'I am but a messenger come from thy Lord, to give thee a boy most pure. She said, 'How shall I have a son whom no mortal has touched, neither have I been unchaste?' He said, 'Even so thy Lord has said: "Easy is that for Me; and that We may appoint him a sign unto men and a mercy from Us; it is a thing decreed."' S. 19:16-21
A good question to ask at this point is why was a virgin birth necessary seeing that God's law of reproduction had already been set in motion? Adam's creation was due primarily to the circumstances in which he was created, i.e. seeing that he was the first man there could have been no possible way for him to have been born from human parents. Yet the situation with Christ was different and a virgin birth wasn't required, unless there was something special and unique about Jesus.
Islam does not give a good or valid reason for the virgin birth, apart from the assertion that Allah wanted to show that he could create anyway he sees fit. But this still wouldn't explain why Allah chose to demonstrate his creative ability by causing Jesus to be conceived from a virgin, as opposed to someone else, whether Abraham, Moses, Muhammad etc.
The Holy Bible gives us the reason why Jesus was born of a virgin:
"And Mary said to the angel, ‘How shall this be, since I have no husband?’ And the angel said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.’" Luke 1:34-35
God decreed the virgin birth since the Lord Jesus is his unique and beloved Son. God ordained Christ’s entrance into human existence by means of a virgin since this is what befitted the eternal glory and dignity of his immortal Son.
Thus, Adam’s creation is
unlike Jesus’ birth from a virgin. The creation of the former was determined by his circumstances whereas the virginal conception and birth of the latter was due to his unique relationship with God as his beloved Son.
) This is what I mean about all the evidence being very ambiguous and unclear... 