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%ll usli n C b risti a, 9i alogue35C. Difficult to judge!M. Let us see it from the Qur'anic point view, and thiscorresponds with what Jesus himself said in the Bible. Jesus ismentioned several times in the Qur'an as a Word of Allah. InStuah 3:39: "Then the angels called to him (Zechariah) while hewas standing in prayer in the chamber (saying): Allah gives youglad tidings of John [the Baptist] believing in a Word from Allah,noble, keeping away from sexual relations with woman, a prophet,and one ofthe righteous. "In the same Surah 3, again mentioned in verse 45: "[Remember]when the angels said: "O Mary! Verily Allah gives you glad tidingsof a Word from Him, his name will be Messiah Jesus, the son ofMary, held in honor in this world and the Hereafter, and of thosewho are near to Allah." In both verses of the Holy Qur'an Jesus isalso called a Word from Allah, i.e. a Word coming from Allah orbelonging to Allah, in correspondence with I Corinthians 3:23:"And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's." John I : I should alsohave been written: "... and the WordwasGod's."Themistakecould have been in the translation from Aramaic to Greek'deliberately or not. In the Greek language Theos is God, butTheou means God's (see a Greek Dictionary, Greek Bible, orMuhammad in the Bible by Prof. Abdul-Ahad Dawud, formerBishop of Uramiah. page l6). A difference of only one letter butbig consequences.C. Why is Jesus called the Word of God in both Scriptures?M. The creation of Jesus in the womb of Mary was without theagency of a sperm, just only with the decree of Allah: "8e," asmentioned in the same Surah 3:47: "She(Mary) said: 'O my Lord!How shall I have a son when no man has touched me.' He said:'So [it wili be], for Ailah creates what He will. When He hasdecreed something, He says to it only. "Be." and it is."'