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Ed J replied to the topic in the forum JOHN 1:1 who is the WORD? 4 years, 3 months ago
Hold firmly to the truth, encourage by sound doctrine.
The first thing that must be considered in John 1:1 is that John did not speak English, the Text handed down to us is in Greek.
John 1:1; En arché én ho lógos kaí ho lógos én prós tón theón kaí theós én ho lógos.
ho lógos =91
Spirit =91Ho Logos is God’s HolySpirit, not Jesus
Proclaimer replied to the topic in the forum JOHN 1:1 who is the WORD? 4 years, 3 months ago
Jesus said, ‘ye are theos’. Was he saying that some humans were God / YHWH?
NT:2316; Theos, is used of whatever can in any respect be likened to God, or resembles Him in any way: John 10:34, (Thayer’s Greek Lexicon)
John 10:34-35; Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are gods’? 35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came — and the Scripture cannot be broken…”
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I would agree to an extent. Jesus said that, “God is Spirit”, John 4:24; pneúma ho theós.
Logos comprises more than the physical aspect of YHWH, it also represents His entire range of faculties.
It is in Heraclitus’ writings that the theory of the Logos appears for the first time and it is doubtless for this reason that, first among the Greek phi…[Read more]