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  1. Jan 4, 2022 · What does it mean that Jesus is the Word? Why is Jesus called the Word? How is Jesus Christ the true Logos of God?

    • In The Beginning Was The Word
    • The Life-Giving Word
    • The Word Tabernacled Among Us

    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...

  2. Apr 19, 2016 · Jesus is called "the Word" in John 1 because this was one of the most effective and meaningful ways that John could communicate Jesus' deity.

  3. Oct 17, 2022 · The Word is a person, not an attribute of God or an emanation from Him. And He is of the same essence as the Father. Yet in an act of infinite condescension, Jesus left the glory of heaven and the privilege of face-to-face communion with His Father (cf. John 17:5).

  4. Mar 23, 2023 · The Word of John 1:1 is plainly identified as Jesus in John 1:14: “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

  5. The view that Jesus is divine as the Word is explained in many ways in John 1. In the first verse, Jesus is called God with the phrase "and the word was God." In verse 2, John notes, "He was in the beginning with God." In addition to being God, John calls this Word eternal.

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  7. Mar 11, 2022 · Similarly, any Jewish reader would recognize John’s opening words in John 1:1 as a reference back to Genesis 1:1 (“In the beginning”) and would understand that John was proclaiming Jesus to be God and creator.

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