logos

“The Word” in the Prologue to John’s Gospel In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by it, and without it nothing was made. In it was life… John 1:1-3 Tyndale’s New Testament of 1534 (modern...

For the Old Testament writers “the word of God” is the self-expression of God or a quality of God. So when John 1:1 says that “the word was with God” it doesn’t mean that a person was with God. In the Old Testament qualities of God, things belonging to God are said to be “with Him” — His...