The Logos

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


John 1:1


      In the Gospel of John, Jesus is described as "the word." The physical, human manifestation of God's word. Of God Himself. The greek word "logos" is used in this gospel. Logos, in the philosophical sense, is the agent of creation and what gives creation meaning and how humans reason and process existence and God in our minds.


    Logos is simply translated as "word," but the concept has so much more depth and substance than that simple translation gives it credit for. Obviously, Jesus has so much more depth and substance than just the word "word."


       For me, all of existence is encoded into existence by a language, both the physical and the abstract. All things are encoded and given their weight, value, and purpose through a language. A language of pure, raw meaning.


     To me, every system, every part of every system, every property, every relationship and function within every system, infinite or finite, has a label. An identifier. A "name" given to it in a language of just raw meaning.  A language higher than any human language. The supreme language.

  

       This is all done through words. Whether it is english or the supreme language of God, all of this labeling is done by words. And that is what the logos is. The "word" which identifies, defines, and gives meaning to every part, every whole, every individual, every group, every game, every relationship, every system, every"thing" within the infinite creation. 


It is through this "word" that all things were conceived of and then made manifest into substantial or abstract reality. Jesus represents that "word" or "language" as it manifested itself as a human being. The logos and the Father are the same God, just with different functions. Different purposes. 


     The Logos is the "meaning," the raw truth through which everything is made real by. I look at existence as such complex place that not only is every galaxy or star labeled and named a unique name, but every basic, foundational particle of all substance is named a unique name and given a definition of its properties and functions. That's the level of complexity I think existence has, and that supreme language of God has.


The simple word "word" doesn't do the concept of "logos" justice.

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