John 1 (NIV)
The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not over come it.
When the Greek thinker Heraclitus (504–501 BC) wrote his thoughts on the logos, he had understood from his experiences that the logos can “hold” and be “heard” and “understood” and things “come to be in accordance with it".....
.... that the logos is common that it is wise to listen to it, and that it can be so deep that its boundaries (if any) can never be discovered.
Heraclitus argues there is an orderly, law-governed process of change in the universe that encompasses apparent opposites that exist as one thus hot, and cold reflect two different realities present in the same matter such as hot water, that cools to a lower temperature....Heraclitus is saying that the unity of diverse phenomena is to be found not in their matter, but in their logos...the logos being the orderly balance of apparent opposed forces present at one in the same material....for the very identity of an object depends not on the matter that composes it, but on the regularity and predictability of the changes it undergoes....
...thus, the birth of human life is never an event, rather a process of (ongoing) creation, or development until its natural death...evidencing that a self aware living organism transforms its life by living in harmony with its creating source... the logos,...which influences the growth of human life, to reveal the presence of the logos as its creating resource, and source, of its very being...
... Heraclitus further proposed that the logos is the source of the cause, and effect that nature reveals to all who are prepared to understand that change is the only constant, and that transformation is the very revelation of creation ongoing in an harmoniously planned universe functioning according to planning that appears chaotic, whereas in reality rewards those who cooperate with the logos the awareness that despite superficial appearances, change is the inevitable outcome of being alive to the influence of the logos revealing its individual plan in the life of each, and every human person.
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