Often Muslims sincerely cannot understand the Christian teaching about the Incarnation. This, as a rule, stems from the fact that they do not think about the difference between nature and personality.

What does this mean?

For example, if a person suddenly loses an arm or a leg, then he will not stop being himself. If a person loses their memory as a result of amnesia, their personality will remain the same. If he loses his intellectual abilities, his personality will remain the same. This means that neither the parts of the body, nor the body itself, nor the memory, nor the mind are a person. All this belongs to human nature. And the personality is the "me" that has this nature. It can be said that human nature is everything that answers the question "what?" and personality is everything that answers the question "who?"

It is also in God. Therefore, Christians can say that God is one, because He is one by nature, and that God is Trinitarian, because one divine nature has three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

And the second Person of the Trinity incarnated on Earth two thousand years ago. This is Jesus Christ.

It is because of the lack of understanding of the difference between nature and personality that Muslims do not understand this fact. Those of them who polemicize with Christianity like to quote from the Gospel that speak of the humanity of Christ, and think that by doing so they have been able to refute the teaching of Christians about the Incarnation.

But for the Christians themselves there is no "refutation" or "contradiction" here, for having become man, Christ did not cease to be God, he did not "transform" from God into man, and did not confuse the divine nature with the human into some kind of hybrid - no! He simply incorporated human nature, born of the Virgin Mary, into His Person. He is both true God and true man, and the fact that the Gospel illuminates one thing or the other does not constitute a contradiction.

Let's imagine that a story describes the life of an engineer. Then it is mentioned that he is the father of the family. And so, some reader will be indignant: "Well, how can he be a father, if on the previous page it is clearly stated that he is an engineer?" So for the God-Man Christ it is just as natural that He is both God and man.

Christianity proclaims the great miracle of God – the true incarnation of God. God did not put on the mask of man, did not play the role of man, as in the ancient drama, but, without ceasing to be God, took on human nature and freed it from all shortcomings, flaws and distortions – brought it to full perfection, raised it to the supernatural level. And now we can connect with this renewed nature and heal our own, distorted by the consequences of Adam's original sin and affected by personal sins.

One of the key differences in the understanding of the personhood of God is the Christian view of God as love (1 John 4:8). "God is a perfect person, therefore He is perfect love,"50 wrote St. Nicholas of Serbia. We know love in this, that He laid down His life for us (1 John 3:16).

Thus, for Christians, Jesus Christ is not a "teacher of morality" or a "mere prophet," but the eternal God, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. His kingdom is the kingdom of all ages, and his dominion is in every kind. He is our Lord, as our Redeemer and Head of the Church. Jesus is called the Only-begotten, because. only He is born of the essence of the Father, unlike the other children of God (men and angels). They have a different nature from the Father and become children by adoption through Christ.

The name Jesus means Savior. He saved people from sin, damnation and death. As we remember, the first people, Adam and Eve, fell away from God by committing a sin. As a result, human nature itself has been corrupted.

And so, in His mercy, the Lord Himself intercedes for His creation. Three barriers stood before Him. The first of these is the gulf between the divine and human natures. For it was said to Moses, "Man cannot see Me and live" (Exodus 33:20).