In the beginning was the Word.
In Greek it is said, "In the beginning was the Logos"...
In Aramaic it is, "In the beginning was Willed Action"...
Here is John 1:1 in the JMNT:
Within a beginning (or: In union with Headship and Sovereignty) there was the Logos (the Word; the Thought; the collection of thoughts; the Idea; the Reason; the discourse; the communication; the verbal expression). And the Logos (the idea; the thought; the expression; the Word) was facing, [directed, and moving] toward, (or: continued being face to face with) God. And the Logos (the Word; the thought; the idea; the reason; the expression) continued being God.
(or: Originally, within the midst of the first principle, the Word was existing and continued to be, and the Word was being [projected] toward God. And this Word, It was existing actually being God;
or: In command was Reason, and Reason was staying with God, for Reason was just what God was;
or: The Thought was in the midst of [the] Source, the Thought was oriented toward Deity, and the Thought was [an extension of] Deity;
or: In beginning, the collected and put side by side Thoughts continued in progressive existence, and the collected and put side by side Thoughts continued being a progression to God, and God {“the Divine Mystery” – Paul Tillich's definition of theos} was in continued existence being those collected and put side by side Thoughts;
or: In union with [the] beginning there was the continued existence of the Idea, and the Idea was continued existence face to face with God, and the Idea continued in existence being “the Divine Mystery;”
or: In beginning, the Word continued Being. Then the Word was Being directed toward God. And yet the Word was Being God;
or: Within the power of beginning – which is the controlling principle and power of the entire process – there existed the Idea, and the Idea was aimed at and moving toward God.
Also, the Idea existed being God).
(John 1:1 - Johnathan Mitchell New Testament)
Observe these very telling and descriptive words and phrases implied from the original language in this famous passage about the "Word" which became flesh (or the God-Man, Jesus Christ)..."the Thought", "the collection of thoughts", "the Idea", "the Reason", "the discourse", "the communication", "the verbal expression", "the continued existence of the Idea", etc...whatever that "Word" was that John was trying to describe in human language in the prologue of his Gospel, it existed long before there was any concept of a collection of books that we now call the Bible...
In a previous post we have discussed this verse and the concept of the "Theo-logic" that was defined as being in "The beginning" (or in "A" beginning, as some texts say)...the bottom line is that we believe that that Thought/Reason/Idea/Logic/Willed Action became a person in the physical dimension for approximately 33 revolutions around the sun, and then declared that "He" had to go away, so that another Helper could come who would lead us into all Truth...not into a collection of books written by 40 Jewish authors over a span of 1,500 hundred years, but into ALL TRUTH...the Bible contains it and connects to it, but is not by any means ALL of it...the Word became a human being, not a library of books, and then that person said that He had to go, so that Something/Someone else could come..."man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that PROCEEDS (present-tense) out of the mouth of God"...
I love the Holy Spirit.
I love the miraculous.
I love the supernatural.
I love the Mind of Christ.
I love ALL TRUTH.
I love that science, particularly Quantum Physics, is helping our minds catch up to what our spirits already knew...once again we are embracing "the Thought", "the collection of thoughts", "the Idea", "the Reason", "the discourse", "the communication", "the verbal expression", "the continued existence of the Idea"...
It's the greatest time in history to be alive! Be grateful that you lived to see it!
A James Collins said...
ReplyDeleteTeach truth unapologetically ... Njoy Life!
:-)
ReplyDeleteDean Dosher said...
ReplyDeleteWilled Action"...
...blessings
Donna-Renée Martin said...
ReplyDelete"man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that PROCEEDS (present-tense) out of the mouth of God". I often think that different people in different places at different times need/have needed different messengers.
Karen Abraham said...
ReplyDeleteAmen!