In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John opens with philosophical claim instead of birth narrative or genealogy. The Word—logos in Greek—is with God and is God. Simultaneously distinct and identical.
This language would have resonated with Greek philosophers who understood logos as the principle ordering the universe. John is claiming Jesus is that principle. The universe isn't random. There's a Word, a logic, a meaning that holds everything. And that Word became flesh. I find myself returning to this. When I experience beauty, mathematics, synchronicity, meaning-making—I'm encountering the Word. The intelligence that orders reality. That became human in Jesus.
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