I'm involved in a discussion with a Muslim friend that I met recently.  We continue to go back and forth through email exchanging questions and answers.  Something that comes up often is the idea that God became His creation; Muslims have an understanding that this is what we believe.  Here is one of his questions related to that, and my response.

 

You ask the simple question "Can God become His creation?"  No, He cannot.  Both of us understand that God's very nature limits what He can and cannot do.  If He became His creation, He wouldn't be God.  We do not believe Godbecame a man in that he ceased to be God and was transformed into a man.  The person of the Son in the eternal God (made up of Father, Son, Holy Spirit), entered into his creation, taking on a human nature in Jesus.  Jesus had 2 natures, a human-nature and a divine-nature.

2 concepts flow out of the scriptures as to the nature of God and the nature of the man Jesus.  1) God is one, and consists of 3 coequal persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).  2) Jesus had 2 natures, one of a man born 2000 years ago by Mary, and the divine nature of the Son, one of the 3 persons of God.  His natures are distinct, yet inseparable.