Section: Clarifying the incoherence of Christian discourse and their division over the nature of the Messiah
As for their assertion:
“On this basis we maintain that the Messiah contains two natures:
- A divine nature—that of the Word of God and His Spirit; and
- A human nature—taken from Mary the Virgin and joined to him.”
It is said to them: The Christians’ discussion of this subject is confused, divergent, and self-contradictory. They agree on no single statement, advance no concept that sound reason can grasp, and cite no revealed scripture in support of it. Instead, they are splintered into sects and factions, each anathematizing the other—the Jacobites, the Melkites, the Nestorians, and the like—and the reports transmitted from them on this matter are chaotic and riddled with disagreement.
Hence it is said: if 10 Christians were to gather, they would disperse holding 11 different opinions. For the creed they profess concerning the Trinity and the union, as recorded in their confession of faith, is not affirmed by any of the prophetic books, nor is it found in the words of