Do you know any of the creeds?
What the Apostles believed that Jesus taught them?
To start, LOGOS does not mean word.
It means the will of God, the reason of God.
Yes, even an idea that God has.
God speaks to us through the logos.
And WHO is the logos?
John 1:1
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD (LOGOS)
AND THE WORD (LOGOS) WAS WITH GOD
AND THE WORD (LOGOS) WAS GOD.
So the logos, or word, was God.
Do you not believe John?
Logos:
What is the Logos?
Logos is broadly defined as the Word of God, or principle of divine reason and creative order, identified in the
Gospel of John with the second person of the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
The concept of the Logos has had a crucial and far-reaching influence upon philosophical and Christian thought. The term has a long history, and the development of the idea it embodies is really the unfolding of man's conception of God. To understand the relationship of the Deity to the world has been the goal of all religious philosophy. While diverging views as to the Divine manifestation have been conceived, the Greek word logos has been used with a certain degree of agreement by a series of thinkers to express and define the nature and form of God's revelation.
Logos means in classical Greek both "reason" and "word." The translation "thought" is probably the best equivalent for the Greek term, since it indicates, on the one hand, the faculty of reason, or the thought inwardly conceived in the mind; and, on the other hand, the thought outwardly expressed through the vehicle of language. The two ideas thought and speech, are indubitably blended in the term logos; and in every employment of the word, in philosophy and Scripture, both concepts of thought and its outward expression are closely connected.
Logos in the Bible
According to
gotquestions.org, In the New Testament, the Gospel of John begins, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was at the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men” (
John 1:1-4). Here it is clear that the “Word” or Logos is a reference to Jesus Christ.
The Gospel of John 1:1-14 - The Word Became Flesh
John argues that Jesus, the Word or Logos, is eternal and is God. Further, all creation came about by and through Jesus, who is presented as the source of life. Amazingly, this Logos came and lived among us: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).
John’s Gospel begins by using the Greek idea of a “divine reason” or “the mind of God” as a way to connect with the readers of his day, who mostly spoke Greek, and introduce Jesus to them as God. Greek philosophy may have used the word in reference to divine reason, but John used it to note many of the attributes of Jesus. In John’s use of the Logos concept, we find that
-Jesus is eternal (“In the beginning was the Word”) Jesus was with God prior to coming to earth (“the Word was with God”)
source: https://www.christianity.com/wiki/c...in-the-bible-definition-and-significance.html
