Why Jesus Christ's Koran says that God has no Son

"But still the truth remains, that truly conjugial love is not possible except with people who are of the Christian Church. That also is why polygamy has been entirely banned from it. This happened, moreover, of the Lord's Divine providence, as is plainly evident to people who think rightly concerning Providence.

That is why it is not lawful for a Christian to have more than one wife. This follows as already established from what we have demonstrated in the preceding discussions. It need only be added here that a genuine conjugial inclination has been more deeply impressed on the minds of Christians than on the minds of gentiles who have embraced polygamy. The minds of Christians are therefore more receptive of that love than the minds of polygamists" (Conjugal Love 337-38).

Conjugal love as a marriage between good and truth or love and wisdom has been expressed in the Father and the Son. The Father represents Divine Good from which the Son, Divine Truth, proceeds; and then Divine Truth goes to the Father, having accomplished its task in the world. 

Those who care about the way that the Lord wrote the Koran, and the verses in it which seem to forbid the two religions being orchestrated by the same Lord, may thus understand on the basis of conjugal love vs polygamy why the Koran contains this verse:

"Never did Allah take unto Himself any son, nor is there any god other than He. (Had there been any other gods) each god would have taken his creatures away with him, and each would have rushed to overpower the other" (Surah Al-Mu’minun Ayat 91 / 23:91 Quran).

In other words, the Muslims are not in conjugal love and therefore are in less light concerning the divine marriage between love and wisdom which has been represented by the Father and the Son. This is the deeper source of this verse's existence and how it squares with Jesus' orchestration of world religions. 

This exists in order to underline the lesser light they are in concerning the Father/Son Love/Wisdom relationship: "a genuine conjugal inclination has been more deeply impressed on the minds of Christians than on the minds of gentiles who have embraced polygamy. The minds of Christians are therefore more receptive of that love than the minds of polygamists"... This was the hardest part of the program of understanding what the Writings say about the Lord's having orchestrated both Christianity and Islam, and now I believe this most obvious challenge to the idea has been sufficiently dealt with.

All the verses in the Koran critical of the belief that Jesus Christ is Himself God and the one Lord were written by Jesus personally in pointed language that opposes false beliefs concerning His divinity while always leaving true beliefs concerning the same untouched. The Lord has followed the same procedure here, for those who have eyes to see, as in the Koran:

"35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?

36 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly" (Mark 12:35-37).

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