And the Messiah said to his disciples, “Whoever receives you (1) has received me, and whoever receives me has received the One who sent me.” (2)

He also said to them, “Whoever denies me before people, I will deny him before the angels of God.” (3)

And to the man who struck the high priest’s servant he said, “Sheathe your sword, and do not imagine that I could not call upon God the Father to place at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels.” (4) Would someone who was the Lord, god, and creator of the angels speak like this?

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If you claim divinity for him on the strength of what you cite from Isaiah: “A rod (5) shall come forth from the house of a prophet, and a shoot (6) shall spring from it; upon him shall rest the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of the word and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of God. Through him they will believe, in him they will place their trust, and he shall be for them a crown and a mark of honor for ages upon ages.” (7)

The reply is: once you are called upon to prove that this passage truly comes from Isaiah, that its Arabic rendering is sound, and that it has not been altered by the translators, you will find that the text is in fact evidence against the Trinitarians who worship the cross, not for them. It in no way shows that the Messiah is the Creator of the heavens and the earth; rather, it points to exactly what the Quran states—that the Messiah was strengthened by the Spirit