The term ‘son of God’ in its original Jewish context (eg see Psalm 2) was simply a metaphor for a righteous Jew, but in the Gentile world the term ceased to be an innocent figure of speech and acquired a metaphysical meaning, attributing divinity to a person so called.
The Islamic tradition rejects this latter development as compromising the strict monotheism proclaimed by God’s Messengers and Prophets.
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