Who is Jesus, my Muslim friend?

John 1:1 says," In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

The Islamic philosophy came to confirm the eternity of the Word. El-Mu'tazila denied the eternity of God's Word, on the ground that God alone existed from eternity before time, and no other existence should share in the eternallity of God. In other words, they could not accept the fact that God's Word is eternal. On 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 Asharites supported their cases with a a very convincing 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 considering 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 and unchangeable God.

It is by necessity and definition that God does not change; consequently, His Word was with Him from the beginning. According to this chapter, Christ is God's Word; also, the Qur'an tells us in (The Women 171) that Christ is "His Word." Because Christ is the Word of God; it is a must that Christ, the Word of 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.