Section: Their exposition of the so-called incarnation of the Word of God in the Messiah—alleging that it is a union free from mixture and the like—and the response to it.

They say:

“As for the embodiment of the creative Word of God by which He brought all things into being, and its becoming flesh in a created human—namely the one taken from Mary, the chosen Virgin who was preferred above the women of all peoples—the Word united with him in a union unmarred by mixture, change, or transformation. He addressed humankind just as God addressed the Prophet Moses from the bush; thus he worked miracles through his divinity and displayed weakness through his humanity, and both kinds of action belong to the one Messiah.”

Response:

This statement contains many kinds of falsehood, unbelief, and contradiction, which become evident in several ways.

First: Their phrase “the creative Word of God by which He created everything” is self-contradictory. The Creator is God Himself, and He created things by His speech—His command, “Be.” Therefore, the Creator did not create things with something that itself creates; rather, He created them. The speech through which things were brought into existence is not their creator; it was the Creator who produced them. The distinction between the Creator and the created, and between that by which the Creator effects creation, is perfectly intelligible.

Yet these people have turned the very means by which the creatures were made into the Creator itself: they have made the Word the Creator and claimed that all creatures were created by it.