A Critical Study of the Doctrine of Incarnation

In many verses of the Bible including the Old and the New Testaments, the unity of God and his being far from corporeality have been emphasized. On the other hand, in the New Testament, incarnation in the form of Jesu's body has been remarked. Using the New Testament, Christians became faithful in incarnation in the form of Jesus` body. Therefore, if someone does not accept the idea of distortion regarding the Bible and wants to accept biblical verses in the current form and present a reliable explanation, he or she has to appeal to an allegorical interpretation without involving in protesting the divine unity and negative attributes. The history of biblical interpretation shows that many Christian commentators considered incarnation as an allegorical issue and even some consider it as a myth. The holy Quran considers God free from matter and corporeality and rejects incarnation especially in the form of Jesu's body. Using Qur’anic and hadith teachings and intellectual reasoning, Muslim theologians also reject incarnation. Moreover, they mentioned that the incarnation hypothesis had been based on some impossible issues.-