womb and the indwelling Spirit of life but from God’s creative command “Be!” Thus the virginal conception, as far as the Qur’an is concerned, testifies only to God’s transcendent power to accomplish what God wills. This is no sign of God’s incarnation in the world, no testimony to God’s dwelling among us as one of us, one with us. It is, rather, a sign of God’s sheer power to call anything into being, including a boy child in the womb of a virgin.6 This is explicit a little later in the same surah:
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