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I am assuming by the phrase 'meaning of word' that you are curious about the 'Logos' which is Greek for 'word'. This is found in the Book of John, the fourth gospel of the Christian New Testament.

According to Christian tradition, the Logos is the gentile writer's definition of Jesus as God. According to John, Logos was in the beginning and everything that was created was created by the Logos. We know the writer was a gentile because he does not write as a Jew and his description and familiarity of the Logos identifies him as a gentile convert to Christianity. John defines Jesus according to John's interpretation of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus' philosophy concerning Zeus whom he portrays as the Logos.

The philosophy of the Logos was written by a Greek gentile, Heraclitus, around five hundred years before the birth of Jesus. This philosophy was well known in the ancient world, especially among other Greeks. When the writer of the Book of John wrote his story, he relied heavily upon the writings of Heraclitus to portray the Logos as Jesus rather than Zeus, who was the person Heraclitus described. Originally, the Logos did not portray Jesus as a creator. The Logos discussed creation through the Zeus and not the Hebrew God or Jesus. It was a philosophy of a gentile discussing his gentile and pagan gods.

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I am assuming by the phrase 'meaning of word' that you are curious about the 'Logos' which is Greek for 'word'. This is found in the Book of John, the fourth gospel of the Christian New Testament.

According to Christian tradition, the Logos is the gentile writer's definition of Jesus as God. According to John, Logos was in the beginning and everything that was created was created by the Logos. We know the writer was a gentile because he does not write as a Jew and his description and familiarity of the Logos identifies him as a gentile convert to Christianity. John defines Jesus according to John's interpretation of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus' philosophy concerning Zeus whom he portrays as the Logos.

The philosophy of the Logos was written by a Greek gentile, Heraclitus, around five hundred years before the birth of Jesus. This philosophy was well known in the ancient world, especially among other Greeks. When the writer of the Book of John wrote his story, he relied heavily upon the writings of Heraclitus to portray the Logos as Jesus rather than Zeus, who was the person Heraclitus described. Originally, the Logos did not portray Jesus as a creator. The Logos discussed creation through the Zeus and not the Hebrew God or Jesus. It was a philosophy of a gentile discussing his gentile and pagan gods.

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A:John's Gospel says that it the beginning was the Word (Logos). This clearly refers to Jesus although the Word, or Logos, was originally a concept of Greek philosophy that eventually entered Christianity via Philo of Alexandria.
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Nestorianism is the doctrine that Jesus exists as two persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than as a unified person.

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Yes, this is essential to the Orthodox Faith, because the Holy Bible tells us that Jesus (being the Word or Logos) is God. (John 1:1) The 'Word' is an English translation of the Greek word 'Logos' which refers to a person (Jesus) rather than to the written word (Bible). Particularly as the written Bible did not exist in the beginning, whereas Jesus has always existed with God the Father.

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  • Logos, the Word.
  • Creator of all things, no thing was created without him.
  • Son of God.
  • etc. (see the gospel of John)
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