Section: A Rebuttal of Their Appeal to the Torah’s Account of Adam’s Creation in Defense of Their Christological Doctrine

The Passage in the Torah: “Let Us create a being after Our likeness and image.”

They say: “Our assertion that God is one deity in three hypostases is something God Himself articulated and clarified in the Torah and in the books of the prophets. Among the proofs is what the first book of the Torah records—when God wished to create Adam, He said:

‘Let Us create a being after Our likeness and image.’

Who could be His likeness and image except His Word and His Spirit? And when Adam defied and disobeyed his Lord, the Exalted, God said:

‘Behold, Adam has become like one of Us.’

This, they contend, is an explicit statement showing that God addressed His Son and His Holy Spirit.”

Response: Their use of this text to support their claim about the Messiah is the height of corruption and misguidance. The actual wording of the Torah is:

“Let Us make Adam in Our image and after Our likeness,”

and some render it:

“Let Us create a human being according to Our image and likeness.”

The meaning is identical, and it parallels the saying of the Prophet—peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—

“Allah created Adam in His image,”

and in another narration: “in the image of…"