The Word of God represents the actual communication and revelation of God’s message and Person to humanity—manifested in Christophanies in the Old Testament, incarnate in Jesus in the Gospels, and inscribed in Scripture. - all made comprehensible and transformative by the Holy Spirit.
We often get tangled in the term “word” because that’s our historical medium for transmitting meaning.
But does the medium equate to the meaning?
If sound had been the primary delivery method, might we talking about the “Sound” of God instead of the Word?
In today's terms, we might relate the Logos to a strong electronic signal —transmitted from God, received through spiritual “hardware,” with the Holy Spirit as the one who modulates and demodulates the transmission into something intelligible.
Could it be this simple?
The Word of God represents the actual communication and revelation of God’s message and Person to humanity—manifested in Christophanies in the Old Testament, incarnate in Jesus in the Gospels, and inscribed in Scripture. - all made comprehensible and transformative by the Holy Spirit.
We often get tangled in the term “word” because that’s our historical medium for transmitting meaning.
But does the medium equate to the meaning?
If sound had been the primary delivery method, might we talking about the “Sound” of God instead of the Word?
In today's terms, we might relate the Logos to a strong electronic signal —transmitted from God, received through spiritual “hardware,” with the Holy Spirit as the one who modulates and demodulates the transmission into something intelligible.