Section: Explaining the sound meaning of the Qurʾān’s comparison between Jesus and Adam, and refuting their exegesis of it
They say:
He also said in another place,
“The example of Jesus, in Allah’s sight, is like that of Adam: He created him from dust” ⦗Āl ʿImrān 3:59⦘.
By the phrase
“the example of Jesus” ⦗Āl ʿImrān 3:59⦘
He was alluding to the human nature taken from Mary the Pure, because the name “Messiah” is not mentioned here; only “Jesus” is named. Just as Adam was fashioned without marital union or physical intercourse, so too the body of the Lord Messiah was fashioned without marital union or intercourse; and just as Adam’s body tasted death, so likewise the body of the Messiah tasted death.
They further argue that this is confirmed by His words,
“Allah cast His Word to Mary,”
for, as we Christians say, the eternal, creative Word of Allah descended into Mary and assumed a complete human being. On this basis we affirm that in the Lord Messiah there are two natures: a divine nature