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Jesus was the personification of the written and spoken Word. In the Old Testament God revealed His word through the prophets while in the New Testament the word of God was revealed in a Person - God the Son.
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Jul 23, 2010 · From this statement, we begin to see why Jesus is called the "Word" by John. Consider these facts we learn from John's Gospel and elsewhere in Scripture: First, we know from scripture that God the Father is Spirit (John 4:24), meaning He doesn't exist in physical form.
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Could there be a more profound opening to a book than the one to John’s Gospel? One could search the great ideas of mankind and probe the ponderings of the philosophers and the poetry of the artists and find no idea higher than God, nor a more concise—yet expressive—statement about him, than the one John makes at the beginning of his Gospel. John p...
John has invoked the creation account in Genesis 1 with the opening phrase of John 1:1, so when he continues in verse 3 with the statement, “All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made,” it would seem that he has in mind the way God spoke creation into existence in Genesis 1. John seems to indicate that Go...
Not until 1:14 is it specified that the Word is Jesus, as John writes, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” In verse 1 John had articulated the divinity and eternality of the Word, as well as his distinguishability from the Father, and now he communicates the profundity of the incarnation. The Word became flesh. God became man. Jesus did not...
Dec 29, 2020 · 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.
Mar 9, 2021 · As Luke Wayne points out, Jesus uses the term “word of God” to mean “Scripture.”. Jesus spoke against the way the Pharisees gave priority to “their oral traditions over the biblical writings” saying in Matthew 15:6, “for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.”.
Apr 26, 2019 · In conclusion, the title of Jesus as “the Word” encompasses themes of creation, revelation, incarnation, and redemption. Through the Word, God communicates His divine will and purpose to humanity, ultimately culminating in the person of Christ—the Word made flesh.
Jul 23, 2024 · Jesus Himself says the same: “Whatever the Father does . . . the Son does likewise.”. That’s why Jesus is described as the Word. He is the Word because He is the definitive revealing of who God is and what God is like.
