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DISCOURSE 2

THE “SONSHIP” OF GOD

THE “MONUMENTAL ERROR” of
ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY, and JUDAISM

THE SON OF GOD: SONS OF GOD.

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.”
Stuart Chase.

Battleground: The “Sonship” of God

ISLAM

For this formative Discourse we have used a term prevalent in the Koran where it refers primarily to Jesus Christ; that of “Sonship”, and that relationship to God as seen through the lens of the Muslim religion. No equivocation on the part of Islam; the “Sonship” of God as espoused by the Christian religion is an absolute “non-event” for Muslims, for Jesus was ostensibly just a prophet –- just the “son of Mary”.

However, and very fortuitous for Islam, Jesus just happened to be around at exactly the right time in history to ostensibly point to Muhammad as the Spirit of Truth --- according to Islam’s “official” narrative. When we use the term, “Monumental Error” in the Discourse Heading, what we mean is that all of the “big three”, each in their own way, have not at all understood the real import of “SONSHIP OF GOD”.

To emphasise that point and hopefully give it the commensurate “gravitas” that is Its accompanying Power, we have Capitalised the Concept in this opening section. Even the Christian religion, which prides itself on having The Son of God as the cornerstone of their Church and religion, stands indicted under the inviolable umbrella of The Divine Laws of Creation in their non- understanding of the true “Mission” of Jesus; thus why He had to come to earth in the historical timeframe that was His life and times.

For you, reader, as a seeking individual -- for under those very inviolable Laws your every decision will bring to you the commensurate consequences -- this Discourse can open a path for you that will anchor a foundation whereby at appropriate stages in the Work we will give you the detail of all that we allude to or state in these early stages. For now, let’s try and sort out the religious mess centred on “Sonship of God”.

Islam’s implacable opposition to any notion of just the “possible” existence of a “Son of God” would seem to almost verge on the hysterical. For it must not be raised as an idea, it must not be stated, and the very belief must be attacked at all costs. In short, it must be destroyed, expunged, eradicated, from all human thought and writing. What drives such a venomous approach to this “reality”? Well: Let’s reacquaint ourselves with a clear Truth that answers that question.

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In the final analysis, only one reason could produce such vehement opposition, otherwise Muslims could simply allow all other religions to simply “live and let live” in the same way that other faiths can and do --- but Islam clearly cannot. Ultimately, then, and obviously seeded by Islamic doctrine; the reason probably stems from a very deep-seated and collective --- perhaps even non-conscious --- psychological FEAR that if Jesus truly was The “Son of God”; if it really were the case, then Muhammad could not possibly be the Spirit of Truth. That is the great Muslim FEAR!

[Reader, once again note that the notion, if, is only for the purposes of this immediate discussion, for the reality of the trial of Jesus and its recorded, immediate aftermath stands as clear “earthly” testimony to His Divine Status.]

The Islamic doctrine that proclaims Muhammad to be the Spirit of Truth is predicated on the absolute declaration that such is the case because “God had no offspring”; that The Creator of all things stands completely alone; that “God had no consort” by which to “produce” offspring in the form of a “son”. Therefore, as we must continue to reiterate, the notion of Jesus as The Son of God is anathema to Muslims.

Let’s now quote a number of texts from the Koran and let M.M. Ali speak on them before we seriously comment on this “locked-in-stone” belief. Because the notion of “sonship” is crucial to the debate of a “Spirit of Truth” and the spread of associated texts and commentary in the Koran is not vast, some texts are repeated here -– and perhaps will be again in later Discourses. From 2:116, M.M. Ali:

(*) On the surface, the notion that God is a “Divine Being” is perfectly understandable in terms of attempting to place The Creator at a distance from the human-earthly that would be commensurate with the necessary separative- reality that is inherent with a Creator and the far lower creatures that have developed as a result of His Creation. So the word, “Divine”, has been the “constant” by which human beings have sought to adorn GOD with a Title that bears, in the earthly sense, the greatest degree of Majesty and Power, and reverence and worship, that human language can aspire to.

However: Whilst the word, “Divine”, has been sufficient for that specific purpose up to this point in the human spiritual journey --- for what other word did we have to describe HIM --- with the entry of The Spirit of Truth and The Living Word of God now on earth through Him, that commensurate elevation of the Highest knowledge here in The World of Matter brings forth a new and far Higher concept and reality for The Creator than the word, “Divine”. From verse 6:101:

(**) Let’s briefly comment on the word, “consort”, for the begetting of a “son”. Here on earth, a “consort” is obviously necessary for any male impregnation of that “female consort” for offspring to be produced. But that is “down here” on earth. To even deign to infer that THE CREATOR OF ALL THE WORLDS --- Enthroned at the absolute Highest Level, even Above the Creations --- somehow needs a “consort” to “produce” a “son” there, clearly reveals a level of “non-understanding” that is really inexcusable and just plain crass. If even the best Islamic scholars do not even begin to understand that there must very obviously be an immeasurably-vast distance and thus difference between us in the World of Matter, and HE in HIS humanly-unapproachable Realm.

Why would that be so difficult to understand, whereby Islam attributes “earthly characteristics” to the Highest of all, including and especially what the Koran infers as the only way that “The Almighty” could possibly beget a “son” would be in an earthly way? It is, in a word, insane! Islam and the whole of the Muslim world: Understand this:

In concert with that, surely, very logical, “reality”, here is exactly the appropriate place to hear the commensurate Words of The Spirit of Truth about The Place or Realm of GOD; i.e., that “new and far Higher concept and reality for The Creator than the word, “Divine”, to which I recently alluded.

Actually, it is quite ludicrous that human beings should mull over and pontificate about levels of Creation so far away from our ability to even begin to comprehend such Heights. Yet we do. So: Hopefully to consign such foolish and inane ideas to the mountain of rubbish of appalling human distortions, let’s learn from The All-Truth exactly the vast difference between the humanly- unattainable and unapproachable Divine Realm and the actual:

PLACE OF GOD!

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Reader: That comes from The Hand of The Spirit of Truth Himself! Despite this “new” and “previously-unknown knowledge” you can now know and access, it will nonetheless simply “go over the heads” of the greater bulk of global humanity. Do not let it go over yours. Since we know that few will heed, let’s just continue on with the religious “stuff” from M.M. Ali.

Let’s pause here and comment on Ali’s take on verse 9:30^b. The phrases, “we are told”, and “recent research has established the fact beyond all doubt” attempts to establish Ali’s claims ‘beyond all doubt’, but without any commensurate “proof”; for he does not say here how it is thus established. Because the issue cannot be decided in a Court of Law and only history holds the final picture, how can this impasse ever be resolved? It certainly cannot by religious debate, and ultimately cannot by force of arms to compel submission and/or acceptance of a given position. Simply because Truth cannot be sanitised, what has been and what is, is so forever. Religious pride, ego and blasphemous error can never change that hard Fact.

There is one way, one avenue, open to human beings whereby this and every other contentious issue can be resolved beyond all doubt, speculation, and uncertainty, and that is through the knowledge contained in the “Akashic Record” -- written on the “Pages of Time”!

There, under the wise Ordinances of The Creative Will, all is recorded as it occurred, along with the words that were said in the moment, for nothing is lost in Creation. From that source in a later Discourse we will learn, among many other amazing historical and religious Truths, the real Truth about Jesus and His “Sonship”.

Access to that knowledge is given to global humanity as a part of The All- Truth from The Spirit of Truth, and with which religions -- if they so wish and if they can swallow their stubborn pride and ego and let go their appalling distortions of Pure Truth -- can become free, and so begin to set in place through transformation what was always ordained for global humanity: A One Truth guiding one true “direction” for all peoples.

Let’s state that again: In our long and blood-soaked religious journey, what was always ordained for global humanity by this time was for there to be just “One Final Truth” guiding the same ‘Teaching’ for every human being on earth. That was what we on earth should have brought about, but we didn’t. Now we debate over non-understanding, non-recognition and lies and deceit of useless opinions, simply to maintain religious status quos’, to where maiming and killing to the point of beheading is deemed “right” by the worst of them. And all to the supposed glory of a strange beast termed “religious truth”, when it is all just distorted, religious lies.

Reader: Know that this is not a pleasant book to have to write, yet we must. Once more I enjoin you to delve deeply into this “stuff” that one has to work with and become spiritually free of it all. That is my hope for you! In the meantime, let’s look at a few more Koranic verses about “Sonship” from Chapter 18:1 and 18:4-5.

Here we have another view of ‘Sonship” from M.M. Ali where in verse 1, the part-sentence --- “and allowed therein no crookedness” --- basically represents a kind of standard yet nonetheless “concrete mantra” which states that the content of all the three monotheistic “Books of Religion” are ostensibly all given by God to men on earth, who then write them down in “verbatim- perfection”. By that definition, they are thus ALL miraculous, sacred and holy --- without one single flaw.

Of course, that is patently wrong; in fact, it is all just religious hype! For if we employ simple, good old plain, everyday logic, and if we said the same thing ten million times, it would --- historically --- always reveal the same thing; that that notion of perfection in all three “Books” is absurd. Why? The answer is really quite simple! For obviously: If they really were all given by God verbatim and recorded perfectly --- as each religion is wont to claim --- would they not then all read the same?

Surely that is the obvious conclusion to draw, and that would mean that there would not, could not, be any dissension between the “big three”. Yet that has never been so; in the end, just vast amounts of bloodshed. And even if the historical aspect of the “three Books” were different for the individual peoples in their particular cultures, as they obviously would be, The Laws of Creation: The Laws of God --- in their absolutely correct interpretation --- would have to be the same in all “three”, but they are not.

And thus were humankind given the great prophecies of warning about the Coming One Who in the “last days” would bring that Final and Perfect Truth direct from God; brought by His Envoy personally so that it would be untouched, and therefore unsullied, by human hands and devious religious minds.

However: Instead of being awake in heed of the prophecies, the latter-day leaders and scholars of Islam, Judaism and Christianity -- the very religions tasked to lead their peoples to the recognition of that stupendous Event of Revelation in the 20^th century -- instead have done exactly the opposite. They have fostered suspicion, fomented violence and committed inexcusable acts of terror, all in the name of just their religions -- as if such actions would be “pleasing” to The Creator; the “producer” of all that is good and Perfect.

Let’s allow M.M. Ali to continue his support for the Muslim view of no “Son of God”, and also note his most interesting interpretation of the concept of “Antichrist”.

(*) We have previously commented on the dangers of religions “concealing the truth with falsehood”. The paradox there, of course, is that if a given religion does not have The All-Truth in its absolute form, it has no benchmark by which it can determine whether its own particular doctrine is in concert with that Truth. So, to condemn other religions from a position of “not knowing” is a pointless and hypocritical exercise. On the other hand, in M.M. Ali’s analysis of verses 1, 4 and 5, his reference to the Antichrist as being the Christian Church because it opposes the true teachings of Christ, resonates with real Truth.

For in the final analysis, the very word -- Antichrist -- is unequivocally clear. It means that anyone, any culture, any nation, any religion that opposes any single part of what Christ brought to earth and taught, simply has to be anti-Christ.

That ‘grammatical’ reality must therefore also include Islam in its condemnation of Jesus not being The “Son of God”. Interestingly, a whole industry is now centred on [the] Antichrist in religion, books, Hollywood films and documentaries. However, the simple and logical meaning of Antichrist has gotten lost in the hype, religiosity and even collective fear of this supposedly “dark entity”. As we reinforce, it simply means “opposed to Christ”, so the Koran is certainly correct in its understanding of the word/Title. In any case, only one “force” -– of human making of course -– represents and is the real Antichrist. [We may perhaps reveal that in a later part of this Work.]

In terms of English language usage, the above verse would seem to have no connection with, or bearing on, Jesus and “Sonship”. Perhaps without the knowledge of Arabic, the Koran would always be a difficult book to make sense of anyway. Despite that consideration, nothing ever seems to be stated in plain and simple language, where even individual dialects are “roped in” to make the anti-“Sonship” case for Islam “stick”. So, it is opened up to all sorts of interpretations, as we read in M.M. Ali’s commentary on verse 17^a:

It is extremely difficult to even begin to understand where any logic might reside in the above verse. The first part speaks of a ‘son’ in the singular and then immediately extrapolates that singularity into the assumptive of ‘any (other) god’, and then into ‘some of them would have overpowered others’. It seems to be a “verse of desperation” to try to prove some kind of absolute point. If the notion of the “sonship of God” is anathema to Muslims, then that is the Islamic world’s right to believe so, but why then try to over-prove the argument by taking the singular, “sonship”, to illogical and unworkable lengths? In all things, logic must surely be the fundamental cornerstone of The Creative Will of God, and no religion can alter that Divine reality. From Koranic verse 43:81:

‘Say: The Beneficent has no son; so I am the foremost of those who serve (God).^a

In this verse, M.M. Ali expounds on the theme of negating the “Sonship of God”, seemingly at all costs, as his commentary reveals.

An interesting question arises with the above verse in the relationship between Muhammad and Jesus. Let’s clarify that sentence: By relationship, we do not mean what the Islamic world currently believes, or how the Christian world might view Muhammad. We mean in real terms, under Divinely-Ordained Decree. For as we have stated, there is an unimpeachable Source or Record of all that has occurred in the history of mankind that no human being and certainly no human religion can alter. In that Chronicle will be found the true and absolute “record” of the ‘relationship’ between Jesus and Muhammad.

However, that crucial information must wait for its appropriately-relevant Discourse. The content therein will also clarify many of the so-called “miracles” of Jesus, for one. Miracles, though real and possible, are still subject to the precise outworking of The Divine Laws of Creation. “I come not to overthrow the Law, but to fulfil it.” (Matthew 5:17.) So, whilst some reported “miracles” were not possible, others certainly occurred.

On the question of the Muslim obsession with the concept of “consort”, and for the purposes of replying and/or commenting on it, let’s once more ask the obvious question: “If Islam believes the “consort” and thus “sonship” issue to be irrelevant, why bother with so much verse and commentary. Of course, without Jesus as Islam’s “son of Mary”, the Scripture of John 16 centred on “The Spirit of Truth” is rendered irrelevant for any kind of perceived Islamic religious authority to so claim!

To conclude Muslim commentary on Mary, Jesus and “Sonship” in this Discourse, we reproduce from The Foundational Text the key points of what we consider to be the definitive series of Koranic verses that show how far removed “modern Korans” are from sheer logic and thus Truth on this critical issue. Precisely about the distortions centred on the birth of Jesus, we once more “illuminate” for you how medieval, how illogical, how absurd particular elements of Muhammad’s once clear teaching have now become.

From the Koranic Sura (chapter) on Mary, a Jennifer Williams’ quotes a number of verses pertaining to Mary and her “travail”. Earlier, we asked you to try and spot a very illogical and totally silly aspect of one verse --- remembering that the Koran is said to be verbatim in content from Gabriel to Muhammad. If you didn’t get it, you really should have, for the impossible nature of the whole event is very clear to see!

Well, reader, as I stated earlier, this very foolish but nonetheless important narrative is cleverly-contrived, but totally unthinking in its supposed logic. We will tell you why as we dissect it all and, through just plain logic, show you how mindless it truly is, and precisely why it is so unthinking. The truly amazing thing about that series of Koranic verses is that 1.5 billion human beings actually “buy into it” and, moreover, without any degree of logical thought and intelligence whatsoever. For among that Muslim multitude who will not question the Koran or any part of it are any number of engineers, mathematicians, university Imams, doctors and lawyers etc.

Why, reader, do they not “publicly” question such obvious impossibilities as you have just read? For in truth, they are unworkable distortions that do not possess even a shred of just plain, intelligent logic. Yet that is a series of verses from just one chapter of the Koran. Despite the official line that Islam as a “religion of peace”; it seems that any clear-thinking Muslim who might want to challenge such illogical dogma from the “only perfect religion” for the only “true believers”, would surely put them at serious variance with most of the rest of global Islam.

Well, now read our commentary on good and accepting Muslim, Jennifer Williams’s, contribution to Islam’s “global crusade”, and then in pure honesty try and refute what we can clearly “see” as impossible nonsense. For what we will explain to you in very simple logic, you should recognise as a terrible affront against everything that pertains to GOD and HIS PERFECT WILL!

[We have checked the verses in the Koran of our preferred Muslim scholar, M.M. Ali, and also three other Korans to ensure that the verses read similarly; and they do. We will use some of Ali’s commentary to emphasise the crass nature of the whole narrative.]

Reader: Remember as you read the following counter-points of clarification, that the Koran is stated by Muslim Imams and 1.5 billion Muslim adherents --- and counting ---- to be delivered direct from God to the archangel, Gabriel; and thence to Muhammad. It is thus proclaimed by Islam to the one and only perfect and ordained Truth --- for all of humanity. I think that we would all agree that Truth, to be Truth, must hold Perfect Logic, don’t you think? Unfortunately, in this case read and weep!

Right, back to our key subject: The sequence of “Mary’s travail” as depicted in the Koran holds very obvious distortions of just everyday logic, never mind Truth itself. In simple clarification, we herewith present our “dissection” of the major, very illogical, points.

In the following Point 1 we are here told that Mary, born into the Jewish race and culture, would somehow separate herself from the women of her village and go off to a “far place” alone to conceive. Are we expected to really believe that? Fortunately for her in this disjointed Islamic narrative, she at least has the protection of the archangel Gabriel.

And in Point 2 the hoary old argument rears its stupid head here once more: A Perfect God Who brings forth a Perfect Creation through the outworking of Perfect Laws that are inviolable, immutable and thus unchangeable, suddenly --- for human religions, mind --- “permits” a “law change” for Jesus only! What that must obviously mean is that the human vessel into which He had to be incarnated in order to simply exist in the World of Matter was somehow conceived “outside” the Perfection of Immutable Creation-Law!

Sorry! It doesn’t work! For even the great Islamic scholar, M.M. Ali, in commentary 21^b; clearly observes: