The Qur'an spoke of the Power of Christ to create and it mentioned in The House of Imran 49 that He created a bird. Some Muslim scholars objected saying that the ability of Christ to create a bird was not self-generating, but Christ could create "by God's permission". This phrase is of great importance to them because they believe that Christ was a man to whom God granted the power to create a bird out of clay. In response to that misunderstanding, we answer that if you read the Gospel of Christ, you will find that Christ prayed before He made His miracles as though He was asking the permission of God. In His action, He was teaching His disciples and the world the importance of the chain of command and of respecting positions and obeying orders. In the meantime, in order to show the world that he was not a mere human. He always proclaimed at the time He made the miracles that He and the Father are one. If He were not one with God. God would have stripped Him of His powers from the very beginning, from the very moment He claimed that He was equal with God. Therefore, His powers were not granted to Him as to a human but as to Someone Who is equal in essence with God.
The Qur'an insists that Christ possessed the power of creation (House of Imran 49). The Qur'an teaches that the power of creation is restricted to God only (Jonah 34). History testifies that God has never delegated His creating power to any mere human. Here, the conclusion becomes clear and necessary; i.e., the Qur'an is testifying publicly for the divinity and the deity of Christ. The Qur'an recorded that Christ used the same "method of operation" which was used at the time the human race was created, employing the clay and breathing in it. Life came directly from his breath. Notice that life came to the bird when the Lord Jesus breathed in it, showing that He Himself was the source of life (El-Hijr 28 &29). Here the student can see that the Qur'an agrees, overtly and covertly with the Bible text thay Christ was the creator for "All things were made by Him."
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