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According to the Bible, your book, God is described as having many sons. So Jesus is not truly the "only begotten son".Muslims don't believe Jesus was the Son of God
Jacob is God's son and firstborn:
"Israel is my son, even my firstborn" Exodus 4:22.
Solomon is God's son
"He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son": 2 Samuel 7:13-14.
Ephraim is God's firstborn
"for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn" Jeremiah 31:9
(who is God's firstborn? Israel or Ephraim?).
Adam is the son of God
"Adam, which was the son of God" Luke 3:38.
Common people (you and me) are the sons of God:
"Ye are the children of the LORD your God" Deuteronomy 14:1.
"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" Romans 8:14.
"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name" John 1:12.
"That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;" Philippians 2:15.
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: ... now are we the sons of God" 1 John 3:1-2.
"When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" Job 38:7.
"Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD," Job 2:1.
"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD," Job 1:6.
"when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men," Genesis 6:4.
"That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair" Genesis 6:2
David is a begotten sonBook of Psalms 2:7: “I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.”
David, in this verse, is saying that God had told him he was the son of God and God has begotten him.
So "son of God" was not understood within the traditional Israelite milieu, to be a claim to divinity, it was simply figurative, to indicate those who were closest to God, and highly righteous and pious people. But over time, its meaning metamorphosed within the confines of the pagan/polytheistic Greek civilization (where the "gods" in the Greek pantheon were said to have sons and daughters), into the literal understanding that Christians have today, of a divine son. It has nothing to do with Jesus' teachings, and everything to do with the devil enticing people into the worship of other than the one true God of Abraham.
Justin Martyr, an apologist within the early Church, in fact wrote the following in response to pagan criticisms that Christianity borrowed from their beliefs about the sons of God:
"When we say that the Word, who is our teacher, Jesus Christ the first born of God, was produced without sexual union, and that he was crucified and died and rose again, and ascended to heaven, we propound nothing new or different from what you [pagans] believe regarding those whom you consider sons of Jupiter."
Justin Martyr, The First Apology, Chapter 21