Also, just as Muslim scholars have traditionally taught that the Quran is best understood as Allah’s knowledge or speech, so the term for “Word” in Greek is Logos, and it embodies two concepts: reason and speech. These two meanings are captured in the English derivatives logic and dialogue. When God created the universe, he used his divine reason and his speech. These are the ideas embodied in the notion that God the Father created the universe through the Logos, found in John 1:3: “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made” (NIV). So the universe was
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