Likewise, we could contend:
He indwelt certain created bodies, just as the Christians assert.
Or we might say: He became embodied in the way that angels and jinn become embodied—and this is more plausible than the Christians’ statement that He united with the body of Christ. We do know of these subtle beings, the angels, appearing in human form, yet we have never heard of an angel and a human merging into a single entity. If an angel cannot unite with a human being, how could the Lord of all creatures unite with humanity?
They answer, “A jinni may enter a human body and speak through his tongue, but the two remain distinct in essence, will, and nature; there is no fusion between them—he merely inhabits the man and speaks through him.”
The Christians, however, maintain that the Lord of the worlds united with a human being. Some of them claim it is one essence; others say one person and one hypostasis; still others speak of one will. In every version some form of union is inevitable, and this is even more inconceivable than a jinni’s inhabitation of a human. If such a claim is impossible for jinn and angels alike, how much more impossible must it be for the Lord of the worlds?