What is the meaning of John 1:1?

[ChrAug]

Because the pagan Greeks were searching for “the Logos,” the Word, the Unknown God, prime mover, prime causer, the Monotheistic God Socrates died for. As most early Christians spoke Greek and opening the Church to the Gentiles, he played on the pagan Greeks search by claiming that the Logos, the Word, they were searching for is truly Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Garsh! Now I am curious about what the pre-christian Greek concept of what Logos was.

 

[NotWorthy]

Garsh! Now I am curious about what the pre-christian Greek concept of what Logos was.

this comes from AgapeBibleStudy.com

In the Greek language of the 1st century when this Gospel was written, the word logos/ word was associated with the order and the design of the universe and with the intelligible expression of the Greek gods as they interacted with and governed man and creation. But, as so often happens in the New Testament, the inspired New Testament writers who came from the cultural, ritual, and spiritual traditions of the Old Covenant people of God, used Old Covenant concepts and traditions to transform Greek words beyond their commonly understood Greek value. For example, there was no Greek word to adequately express the Hebrew concept of the Messiah, the “Anointed One” of God. Christians adopted the Greek word for “one who is smeared”, christos, and transformed it to mean the promised “Messiah” who is the Anointed One of God’God the Son, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Christos [Christ].

It continues explaining the Jewish knowledge of “Logos”

In the Old Covenant tradition of the Children of Israel, the divine Logos was:

• The creative divine will and power of the one true God “By the word of Yahweh the heavens were made, by the breath of his mouth their array.” Psalms 33:6
• The expression of the wisdom of God “Every word of God is unalloyed, a shield to those who take refuge in him.” Proverbs 30:5
• God the source of all life: “True to your word support me and I shall live…” Psalms 119: 116.

But John weaves together Greek and Hebrew thought to express the Logos/Word as a Divine Person. The Word is the second person of the Most Holy Trinity, God the Son, the eternal Logos who was from the beginning eternally with the Father and who was the mediator of all creation and who has now, through His incarnation, become the mediator of eternal salvation:

• John 1:14 “The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that he has from the Father as only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.”
• John 3:17 “For God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but so that through him the world might be saved.”

Not only does the prologue identify Jesus as the “Divine Logos” but also provides the first and clearest declaration of the deity of Jesus the Messiah, Son of God.