John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
My Muslim friend, I do not have to believe in the Qur'an but you have to believe in the Bible.
You may think that I am making up ideas but know this.
Surah 4:136 reads: O ye who believe? believe in Allah and His Messenger and the scripture which He hath sent to His Messenger and the scripture which He sent to those before (him). Any who denieth Allah, His Angels, His Books, His Messengers and the Day of Judgement hath gone far, far astray."
Surah 2:136, "Say ye: 'We believe in Allah and the revelation given to us and to Abraham, Ishma'il, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes and that given to Moses and Jesus and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord we make no difference between one and another of them; and we bow to Allah (in Islam)."
I will now talk about John 1:1. The Islamic philosophy came to confirm the eternality of the Word. El-Mu'tazila (The Muslim isolationists) denied the eternality of God's Word, on the ground that God alone existed from eternity before time and no other existence should share in the eternality of God.
In other words, they could not accept the fact that God's Word is eternal. On the other hand, the Asharite group, whose philosophy has been commonly accepted among Muslims, answered the Mu'tazila's charges, branding them as a loathsome cult and heresy, and insisting that the Word of God is eternal and that it is the expression of the very Self of God. Then the Asharities supported their case with a very convicting argument.
They said that if the Word of God was created, it would mean that God is changeable; for in creating the Word, He would be considered going on for a while without the Word, and then He reached a point in eternity where He created the Word. Thus, He became a God with the Word. Such a case necessitates a change in the unchanging God. It is by necessity and definition that God does not change; consequently, His Word was with Him from the beginning.
According to John Chapter one, Christ is God's Word; also the Qur'an tell us in (Women 171) that Christ is "His Word". Because Christ is the Word of God; it is a must that Christ, the Word of God, should coexist with God, from the beginning, not as an independent being but as the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, in the One God.
Thus, we find that the main Islamic philosophy introduced the greatest intellectual proof for the eternality and divinity of Christ, who is the Word of God.
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