The claim that “God became man” has been a central doctrine of mainstream Christianity for centuries, yet it has troubled thinkers of every era, from the Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza five hundred years ago to honest seekers today. In this compelling lecture, the speaker dismantles this doctrine using simple logic, historical evidence, and a fascinating investigation into the life of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through the testimony of non-Muslim scholars and biographers themselves.
Why “God Became Man” Is Illogical
Spinoza articulated the fundamental problem clearly: if God turned into a man, then He is no longer God but merely a man. If the church insists He was still God while being a man, that is a contradiction. Calling it “Diophysitism” (two natures) does not resolve the paradox; it merely puts a label on an unanswered question. The speaker draws a vivid analogy: if you take a ball of clay and shape it into a cube, you cannot claim it is still a ball. It was one thing, and now it is another.
Spinoza said: I know what God is and I know what a man is. If God turned into a man, He’s not God anymore. He used to be God, but now he’s a man. But that’s not what the church teaches. They say He became man but was still God, and that is where the problem lies.
What Non-Muslims Discovered About Muhammad
- Non-Muslim biographers acknowledge that Muhammad had an “outside source of information” because the Quran contains knowledge an Arabian of that era could not have possessed
- Some called him a liar who fabricated the Quran; others said he was “crazy” and genuinely believed he was a prophet, but one man cannot logically be both a liar and a deluded person simultaneously
- When Muhammad’s infant son Ibrahim died on the same day as a solar eclipse, his followers called it a miracle, but he rebuked them, saying eclipses are natural phenomena that do not occur for any person’s birth or death
- A liar would have exploited the eclipse; a delusional man would have believed it. Muhammad did neither, pointing instead to scientific truth
A liar would have taken advantage of the eclipse and said “Yes, it proves I’m a prophet.” A crazy man would have believed it. But Muhammad became angry with the Muslims and told them: “The sun and the moon do not eclipse for the birth or death of any person.” He could not have been both a liar and insane. He was neither.
The evidence consistently points in one direction: Muhammad (peace be upon him) was exactly who he claimed to be, the final messenger of God delivering the same message of pure monotheism that every prophet before him had taught. The doctrine of God becoming man remains a philosophical impossibility, while the Islamic understanding of God as the eternal, self-sufficient Creator who is beyond all human limitations is the most rational and consistent theology available to humanity.
