John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

From Background Notes [BN] for October 12^th & 13^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

The Greek term for Word is logos, an expression laden with both religious and philosophical content. Greek thinkers, like Heraclitus (545-475 BCE), for example, used the term for the main principle of structure and reason operating in the world of nature and ideas, much like our concept of cosmic law.

Later thinkers, like Aristotle (384-322 BCE), applied the term to the process of discourse in speech-making, while the Stoics spoke about the life-giving idea at work in nature. Among the Jewish writers contemporary with early Christianity, Philo (20 BCE – 50 CE) developed logos in two directions: “utterance” and “immanence,” or, the spoken word and the resident word. His view of logos included that of a real being that interacted between the perfect world of divine ideas and the imperfect world of material things. He even called logos “the first-born of God.” One of Philo’s chief statements about logos asserted:

… the Logos of the living God is the bond of everything, holding all things together and binding all the parts, and prevents them from being dissolved and separated. [BN,3]

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