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To: Natural Law
Jesus reigns with me

Jesus is The Word. You can't separate what is ONE.

Scripture is but a reflection of Him

GOD'S WORD is NOT a reflection! Reflections aren't alive and don't have power. Don't think you can EVER reduce it away. It ALWAYS was and will ALWAYS will be!

"For the Word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires".

91 posted on 04/18/2012 1:47:40 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name
"For the Word of God is alive and powerful."

Indeed it is, but although 100% of Scripture is the Word of God, it is not 100% of the Revealed word or a fraction of the Word incarnate. God is the author of Scripture. Scripture is not God. Scripture is a reflection of God because it is from God that Scripture derives the truth and light that it shines on us. To worship Scripture is a form of idolatry called bibliolotry. Surely, you are not advocating that, are you?

Catholic seminarians are required to study philosophy before the study theology because some of concepts and terminology introduced in the New Testament are incomprehensible and corruptible to those with no classical educations. In John 1:1, when St. John introduced and consecrated the term "Logos", he didn't arbitrarily choose "word", like some kind of algebraic variable or place holder that would be left to future English speakers to solve. He called upon a term that was already hundreds of years old within the Greek Stoic philosophers. Logos, was not simply Greed for "word". It was the term for a complete system of order and knowledge. The Stoic philosophers identified the term with the divine animating principle pervading the Universe and everything in it.

Jesus is indeed the Logos that we both love and worship. I am sure that is what you meant.

103 posted on 04/18/2012 3:52:59 PM PDT by Natural Law (If you love the Catholic Church raise your hands, if not raise your standards.)
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