The Quranic Denial of Sonship
Versus the Biblical Declaration of the Son
The divide between Christianity and Islam is not minor.
It centers on one question:
Does God have a Son in His own divine identity?
The Bible answers yes.
The Quran answers no—absolutely not.
1. What the Quran DENIES about Sonship
The Quran repeatedly rejects the idea that God has a Son—but it rejects a specific misunderstanding of sonship.
A. The Quran denies biological sonship
Surah Al-Ikhlāṣ 112:3
“He neither begets nor is begotten.”
Surah Al-An‘ām 6:101
“How could He have a son when He has no consort?”
Surah Maryam 19:88–92
“They say, ‘The Most Merciful has taken a son.’
You have done an atrocious thing…”
Key assumption in the Quran:
👉 To have a son means sexual reproduction.
That is the concept the Quran rejects.
B. The Quran treats “Son of God” as pagan mythology
Surah Al-Mā’idah 5:72
“They have certainly disbelieved who say, ‘Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary.’”
Surah At-Tawbah 9:30
“The Christians say, ‘The Messiah is the son of Allah’… may Allah destroy them.”
The Quran places Christian belief in the same category as:
Pagan gods having offspring
Mythological procreation
Created beings elevated improperly
2. What the Bible MEANS by Sonship (which the Quran never addresses)
Here is the critical failure:
The Quran never engages the biblical definition of Sonship.
Biblical Sonship is:
Eternal, not biological
Ontological, not physical
Relational, not sexual
A. Sonship means sharing God’s nature
John 5:18
“He was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.”
The Jews understood perfectly:
“Son of God” = equality of nature
Not adoption
Not creation
B. Sonship is eternal, not created
John 1:18
“The only-begotten God, who is at the Father’s side…”
“Begotten” here means:
From the Father’s own being
Not made
Not in time
C. Sonship means sharing God’s Name and Glory
John 17:5
“Father, glorify Me with the glory I had with You before the world existed.”
No prophet speaks like this.
No angel claims pre-creation glory with God.
3. Why the Quran MUST deny Sonship
If the Quran accepted biblical Sonship, three pillars of Islam would collapse:
1. Tawḥīd as absolute singularity
Biblical monotheism is unity of essence, not numerical solitude.
2. Muhammad as final messenger
Hebrews 1:2 says God has spoken finally in His Son.
3. Jesus as only a prophet
But prophets do not:
Share God’s Name (Philippians 2)
Receive worship (Matthew 14:33)
Create the universe (Hebrews 1:10)
4. The irony: the Quran refutes a belief Christians never held
Christians have never taught:
God had a wife
God produced a son sexually
God generated offspring biologically
Yet the Quran argues as if this were the Christian claim.
This is a category error.
The Quran rejects:
Pagan sonship
The Bible teaches:
Eternal divine Sonship
They are not the same concept.
5. The unavoidable conclusion
The Quran denies sonship because it misdefines it
The Bible affirms sonship because it defines it theologically
That is why:
Islam must say: “Allah has no son.”
Jesus can say:
“Baptize in the NAME of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.”
Because in biblical theology:
To be Son is to share the one divine essence.
Final challenge
Islam is correct to say:
“No creature can be God’s son.”
Christianity agrees.
That is precisely why Jesus is not a creature.
The real question is not:
“Does God have a Son?”
But:
“Is Jesus who He claimed to be?”
Because if He is,
then denying the Son is not preserving monotheism—
It is rejecting God’s own self-revelation.
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