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To: Dayuhan who wrote (24233)	8/12/1998 2:53:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) of 108807

You'll find "logos" in John's gospel. He's using a concept familiar to Stoic Greek philosophy of that day. The Stoics believed that the world of matter is inherently corrupt, and that the spiritual realm is the location of the pure, the 'holy'. Their god would be located in the pure world of spirit and would have no interaction with the corrupt world of matter; but god's active agent, the 'logos', could. Logos literally translates as 'word', 'reason', and perhaps 'wisdom'. In John's gospel Christ is identified as the logos, God's active agent to the world. But instead of being an aeon, an emanation from god, John identifies this logos as being part of the godhead itself. In having god incarnated in the person of the logos, Christianity is rejecting the Stoic concept that the world of matter is inherently corrupt and therefore unsuitable for the presence of god. Christianity roots itself in the world of matter and history, in contrast to the religion of the Stoics and the gnostics. John would see nothing wrong in enjoying a fine meal, but a gnostic having contempt for the world of matter might.

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