Is Jesus the son of God according to Christianity?

- Christians say that Jesus is not the son in Christianity and that it is a mistake of Muslims. Is it true?
- ​ That is a question that has been on my mind lately. On a Christian information website, their pastor, or whatever he is, says:
“Muslims are wrong; we do not regard Jesus as the son of God; we regard him as His word. We call him the son of God because he is His word. Otherwise, God is one. He definitely did not give birth to Jesus.” 
- He said something like that. So, I was confused. We thought they said so. What is your opinion?

Dear Brother / Sister,

In Christianity, Jesus Christ is as important theologically as he is historically because the fundamental teachings of this religion are about Jesus.

According to Christian faith, Jesus is the embodied word of God and hence God. God’s eternal message, which is uncreated, is embodied and lives among human beings as Jesus (incarnation).

Therefore, Christians give Jesus the titles “Son of God, Lord, Messiah”.

Various passages in the Gospels in which God refers to him as “My son” and he refers to God as “my father” are cited as evidence for the divinity of Jesus.

On the other hand, those who argue that he is not a deity also refer the Gospels. (Mark, 10/17-18; John, 5/19; 14/28; 17/3)

Arius, who caused the Council of Nicaea to be convened, tried to show that Jesus was not a deity with counter-arguments he found in the Gospels.

The issue of Jesus’ nature, that is, whether he was a human being or a deity, or both a human being and a deity, was debated for centuries, and with the decisions taken at the councils of 325 Nicaea, 431 Ephesus and 451 Chalcedon, it was officially confirmed and declared that he had two natures, human and divine, but only one personality, and that he constituted an element of trinity as the son of God. (Catechisme de l’église catholique, pp. 96-106; Michel, Hristiyan Tanrıbilimine Giriş, İstanbul 1992, pp. 56-61, 99-102)

According to the Quran, Jesus is a human being and a servant despite all his superior qualities (an-Nisa 4/172; al-Maida 5/17, 75; Maryam 19/30; az-Zukhruf 43/59) 

Jesus never said that he should be made a god; he preached servitude to Allah alone. (al-Maida 5/116-117)

The Quran explicitly rejects trinity and sets forth tawhid (oneness) as the basic principle. (an-Nisa 4/171)

Jesus is also mentioned in hadiths:

It is stated that the devil touches everybody who is born but that he touched Jesus only behind a veil, that Jesus was one of the three people who spoke in the cradle, that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) met him on the night of the Ascension (Miraj) in the second layer of the sky, and that on the Day of Judgment, Jesus will send those who come to him for intercession to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).

It is also explained in the hadiths that whoever believes that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad (pbuh) is His servant and Messenger, that Jesus is Allah’s servant and messenger, and that Jesus is the word of Allah that He breathed into Mary and a spirit from Allah will enter Paradise, and that the closest person to Jesus is the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).

Moreover, the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) forbade Muslims praising him like Christians praised Jesus. (See Bukhari, Salah, 1, Anbiya, 5, 24, 43, 47, 48, Badul-Khalq, 6, Manaqibul-Ansar, 7, 11, 42, 53, Tafsir, 2/1, 17/5, Tawhid, 19, Riqaq, 51, Hudud, 31, Tabirur-Ruya, 32, Fitan, 26)

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