PureX
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Appropriately translated, it says that in the beginning was the "logos": the divine plan, or ideological 'blueprint', for all that which would come to exist, and occur. This is what the term "logos" referred to in ancient Greek. They believed in a complex realm of ideological perfection, upon/within/and through which the material world coalesced into being. It is to an ideological realm of perfect 'logic' that this writer is referring. Not to any words of ours, biblical or otherwise. If we insist on including biblical text as somehow part of this "logos", then why wouldn't we include any and all other texts as well? And the thoughts behind all those texts, too. And ... well, you get the idea. The "logos" would become something kin to a Zen state. Everything = nothing, at which point contemplation of it becomes a meaningless exercise.Uhmm... probably splitting hairs. My take: "In the beginning is the word." So... everything that is. is God's word, - must include our words too, donchathink?
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