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 In short, philosophers before Augustine had used
the concept of “Word” (Logos) to refer to many profound aspects of
reality: its meaningfulness, its purposefulness, its
communicability, and its rationality. The deepest thinkers of
antiquity located these lofty ideas in an unearthly (Platonic) realm
of majestic notions and eternal principles, far removed from the
real world.
But John’s four inspired words reveal both an idea and, more
importantly, an event in history that simply explodes all such human
reasonings and speculations. His gospel begins: “In the beginning
was the Meaning, and the Meaning was with God, and the Meaning was
God” (John 1:1)!
In simple words, Mark Lowry gets it precisely right when he asks
Mary: “Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
When you kiss your little baby, you've kissed the face of God!?”
As Christians we believe the incomprehensible: that in Bethlehem’s
manger the Meaning, Purpose, and Logic of the entire universe became
a baby. The Apostle Paul says it this way: “For in him all things
were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have
been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and
in him all things hold together” (Col 1:16-17).
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