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               32  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 7 (24): 13-37, Autumn 2020
                   -  Son of Man: This is the        1:  1-4;  Hebrews,  2:  5)  of
                      most common description        course, in some passages Paul
                      Christ  has  used  of          is  described  as  God  and  is
                      himself. (Matthew, 8: 20;      described  as  follows:  The
                      Mark, 2: 28; Luke, 6: 5)       fathers are from the Israelites,
                   -  Son  of  God:  This  ratio     and  from  them  Christ  became
                      is  also  true  of  the        body,  and  God  is  above  all
                      Gospels. (Matthew, 4: 3;       things  forever.  (Epistle  to  the
                      Luke, 1: 35; Mark, 1: 1;       Romans, 9: 5)
                      John,  1:  34)  Bible
                      commentators  consider             6. The  Holy  Quran  and
                      the  mystery  of  God  to              Hadiths
                      be  the  Son  of  God.         Many  verses  and  hadiths
                      (Bible Introduction: 121)      introduce  Christ  as  the  son  of
                   -  Christ  Warns  Against         Mary.     The     Holy    Quran
                      Distortion  (Tahrif):  So      introduces Jesus as the word of
                      you invalidate the word        God, a spirit from God and the
                      of  God  by  imitating         prophet  of  God.  (Ref:  Quran,
                      what  you  have  done,         4: 171; Ibid, 5: 57)
                      and  you  do  a  lot  of         The  interpretation  of  the
                      things  like  that.  (Mark,    child of God is one of the most
                      7:13)                          hated interpretations in Islamic
                                                     literature and has been rejected
                    5. The Epistles of Paul          in religious texts.
               This  part  of  the  Bible  speaks      It  is  understood  from  the
               less  of  the  lineage  of  Christ    Quranic  verses  that  in  the
               than  the  Gospels.  In  “Epistles    Arabian Peninsula, a group of
               of  Paul”,  Christ  is  called  the   Christians  believed  in  the
               Son of Man; but he relies more        divinity of Mary, and the Holy
               on being a child of God.              Quran  invalidates  this  issue
                 In this collection, Christ has      and  using  the  phrase  of  Jesus
               preserved  both  his  divine  and     son  of  Mary,  denies  in  many
               human aspects; (Epistle to the Romans,   verses  the  illusion  of  the
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