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created. The same appellation is also given to Jesus Christ
in the Koran - Kalimatun minho, i.e. "a Word from Him"
(Ch.3 v45). But it would be very irreligious to assert that the
Word or Logos of God is a distinct person, and that it as-
sumed flesh and became incarnate in the shape of a man of
Nazareth or in the form of a book, the former called "the
Christ" and the latter "the Koran"!
To sum up this subject, I insistently declare that the
Word or any other imaginable attribute of God, not only is
it not a distinct Divine entity or individuality, but also it
could have no actual (in actu) existence prior to the be-
ginning of time and creation.
The first verse with which St. Johns Gospel commences
was often refuted by the early Unitarian writers, who rendered
in the Koran - Kalimatun minho, i.e. "a Word from Him"
(Ch.3 v45). But it would be very irreligious to assert that the
Word or Logos of God is a distinct person, and that it as-
sumed flesh and became incarnate in the shape of a man of
Nazareth or in the form of a book, the former called "the
Christ" and the latter "the Koran"!
To sum up this subject, I insistently declare that the
Word or any other imaginable attribute of God, not only is
it not a distinct Divine entity or individuality, but also it
could have no actual (in actu) existence prior to the be-
ginning of time and creation.
The first verse with which St. Johns Gospel commences
was often refuted by the early Unitarian writers, who rendered