WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LOGOS?
Note that Jesus as “the Logos” occurs only in vv. 1 & 14 in John. Answer 1: Too many and too complicated to figure out. There are 60 pages of meanings in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Answer 2: The revelation of God’s self. I can remember when our boys were infants, before they could speak: How we wished they could tell us what was going on inside of them. They would cry. We would ask, “Are you hungry? Do you hurt? What’s wrong?” They didn’t answer our questions with words. We had to guess the answers. Words or some form of communication was needed for us parents to know what is going on inside that small child — what he is thinking, what he is feeling, what he wants. (That is even true now that they are in their twenties and living on the opposite coast. Without the sharing of words in some way: phone, e-mail, instant messaging, we don’t know what they are doing, thinking, or feeling. We are all together at Christmas, where we can “catch up” on each other by sharin
