We said previously that Saint John the Damascan tells us that God is one. He demonstrated with powerful arguments that there cannot be many gods. He now tells us that this one and only God has a Word. This is right and reasonable, because we can’t imagine God as being wordless. What do I mean when I apply ‘word’ to God. Let’s clear this up at the beginning. I mean what we would call ‘reason’ although neither one nor the other really applies to God . Can we imagine a human person without word or reason? No. There’s no such thing as a person without speech or reason. So, God isn’t wordless . The difference between God and us in ...
