What is the WORD?
2007-05-02 04:43:32 · 8 answers · asked by anil m 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Word is the very essence of life itself. It is not only an emanation from God but it is God himself. It is a sound that can be heard. It is God himself in expression. It is a UNIVERSAL Spirit that can manifest itself to human consciousness.
2007-05-02 05:14:38 · answer #1 · answered by nedspeak 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are various words translated "word" in English Bibles. The Hebrew dabar also means "thing". The Greek logos also means "reason" and both have various specific connotations.
If you are referring to the Word in John 1:1 then this is a personification of God's speech in creation. This idea in the Judaism of the time and in earliest Christianity overlaps with the concepts of Wisdom and Spirit, and represent God in God's interaction with creation.
A good source for background information is Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish author from the first century who wrote extensively about the Word, and says things comparable to John (e.g. that the Word is "neither uncreated...nor created", just as John says the Word both was with God and was God - this was a both-and rather than an either-or concept in this period).
2007-05-02 11:58:35 · answer #2 · answered by jamesfrankmcgrath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Jesus is "the Word" of God.
Joh 1:1 -
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was before all things, and the different characters in which He is a blessing to man, being made flesh. He is, and He is the expression of, the whole mind that subsists in God, the Logos (the word) of God.
2007-05-02 11:54:25 · answer #3 · answered by Eartha Q 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesaus Christ is the WORD.
John 1
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
2007-05-02 11:49:42 · answer #4 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Word is the Son of God or God the Son.
2007-05-02 11:48:38 · answer #5 · answered by 1saintofGod 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who is the WORD?
Jesus Christ
2007-05-02 11:49:06 · answer #6 · answered by Spoken4 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That jesus is no word. he was copied from older, cooler gods.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen048.html
2007-05-02 11:50:57 · answer #7 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is supposedly Jesus. However, I don't believe it.
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2007-05-02 11:49:17 · answer #8 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋