The Word Is the Essence of Life

In the beginning was the word it is through the word that all things were created. The spirit of god hovered over the womb of mary, and the word was placed in her womb for the world to be made anew. In order to brag on jesus, john masterfully uses one word that would register with two different cultures simultaneously. He calls jesus the word. For the greeks, the word was known as the lagos, i'm sure you've heard some of us before,. It was the force that unifies and brings order to the cosmos. John isn't the only one who thinks this way. Paul wrote something similar when he wrote in col