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To: blam
What I find most interesting is that in New Testament Greek, in John1:1, Christ is called the "Logos", the greek word for "word".
I wonder how this psuedo-academic gets around reason being equal with Christ?
I'm sure it must be a twisted path.

"In the beginning was the Logos,
and the Logos was with God,
and God was the Logos." John 1:1
14 posted on 08/08/2003 8:19:15 PM PDT by TruthConquers
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To: TruthConquers; blam
See the following paragraph from

http://engr.oregonstate.edu/~funkk/Personal/logos.html

"Perhaps the most extensive accounting of The Logos was by Philo of Alexandria, a Hellenistic Jew who lived around the time of Christ. Philo wrote allegories of Old Testament books authored by Moses, interpreting them in the light of Greek philosophy. He used the term, logos,refer more than 1300 times in his writings, in many varied ways. Of particular note are his references to The Logos as the Divine Reason, by participation in which humans are rational; the model of the universe; the superintendent or governor of the universe; and the first-born son of God. Although there is no direct evidence that John ever even read Philo, it seems clear that the concepts he articulated were firmly in the mind of the evangelist when he wrote his gospel."
16 posted on 08/08/2003 9:07:32 PM PDT by Lessismore
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