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Monday, April 12, 2010

LOGOS, the Word

Logos for Jews not just a voice on the air, but a creative power and highly effective. Word is not just stating something, but implementing something.

With the Word was God created the universe (Genesis 1:2,6,9,11,14,20,24,26; Psalm 33:6,9 cf Colossians 1:16, where it is said that in Him (Jesus Christ), all things made, whether visible or invisible). This title is related to the existence of the pre-incarnate Jesus and His transcendence. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made." (John 1:1,3,14; cf 17:8).

In the Targum, which is a popular interpretation or paraphrases of the Old Testament, Logos called Dabar in Hebrew, which in Aramaic Targums called Memra. The Memra proceeds from God, and is His Messenger in Nature and History. In Psalm 33:6 also says "by the Word He made the universe." (By Yahweh's word, the heavens Were Made. - Webster)

In the language of the Peshitta, the Logos is called Miltha. Logos, in some parts of the NT is called rhema. Rhema is a "word" in Itself Considered, while the Logos is a spoken word, which is generally associated with what is in the minds of those who spoke.

Council of Nicea in 325 was not mentioned about Jesus as the Logos or Word, but Jesus called the Son, because the council wanted to affirm that He was not created but born. Not made of that does not exist, but are born of one substance with the Father. It is also to show that His sonship is not a metaphorical or adaptive, but real.

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