A Short Thought On S 5:75
- philhoraia
- Apr 20
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 24
I look at this verse in my post A Note on S 5:75 but here I shall be discussing Isa's eating.
The Messiah the son of Maryam is nothing but a messenger. The messengers passed away before him and his mother is truthful. The two of them used to eat food. See how we make the signs clear to them. Then see how deluded they are!
If his eating precludes Jesus' (supposedly Isa) being God, what if he doesn't eat? May he then be eligible for being God? As Isa was raised, supposedly meaning that he was taken up to be with Allah, does he no longer eat? The denizens of the Jannah, all of whom are physical beings, eat but he doesn't? Is he on an eternal fast?
As all messengers go to the market place (S 25:20 And we did not send before you any of the commissaries but they would eat food and walk in the markets. And we have made some of you a fitnah for others. Will you be patient? And your lord was a seer.), wouldn't Allah's word and spirit when he came as a messenger have visited the market place? When Jibril visited in the form of Dihyah al-Kalbi, wouldn't he have visited the market place? And if so, why, if not for food?
Doesn't Allah itself eat?
S 13:4 S 13:4 And on the Earth are bordering divisions and jannat of grapes and plantations and date palms, trees growing from a single root and not growing from a single root, watered with one water. And we prefer some of them to others in food. In that there are signs for people who comprehend.
If Allah prefers some things to others in food, doesn't it eat? If eating would preclude Jesus' being God, wouldn't it also preclude Allah's being God?
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