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first hypothesis, you are a Christian, a Trinitarian;240if the second, then you are an unbelieving Jew.Nevertheless, we who accept neither of these two propositions are naturally Unitarian Muslims. We Muslims cannot accept either of the two titles given to Jesus Christ (pbuh) in the sense which the Churches and their unreliable Scriptures pretend to ascribe to those appellations. Not alone is he “the Son of God,” and not alone “the Son of Man,” for if it be permitted to call God “Father,” then not only Jesus (pbuh) , butevery prophet and righteous believer is particularly a “Son of God.” In the same way, if Jesus (pbuh) were really the son of Joseph (pbuh) the Carpenter, and had four brothers and several married sisters as the Gospels pretend, then why alone should he assume this strange appellation of “the Son of Man” which is common to any human being?It would seem that these Christian priests and pastors, theologians and apologists have a peculiar logic of their own for reasoning and a special propensity for mysteries and absurdities. Their logic knows no medium, no distinction of the terms, and no definite idea of the titles and appellations they use. They have an enviable taste for irreconcilable and contradictory statements which they alone can swallow like boiled eggs. They can believe, without the least hesitation, that Mary was both virgin and wife, that Joseph (pbuh) was both spouse and husband, that James, Jossi, Simon, and Judah were both cousins of Jesus (pbuh) and his brothers, that Jesus (pbuh) is perfect God and perfect man, and that “the Son of God,” “the Son of Man,” “the Lamb,” and “the Son of David (pbuh) ” are all one and the same person! They feed themselves on heterogeneous and opposed doctrines that these terms represent with as greedy an appetite as they feel for bacon and eggs at breakfast. They neverstop to think and ponder