{"id":2230,"date":"2020-09-11T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2020-09-11T09:14:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T07:14:02","slug":"in-the-beginning-was-the-word-john-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=2230","title":{"rendered":"In the beginning was the Word (John 1: 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThe first foundation of Christian theology is the fact that \nGod turns to us with the word. Plato and Aristotle described the ideal of the best human activity as “an uplift.” mind to God. “It is undoubtedly a noble effort. But if we stay with this program alone, then Christianity would not be different from other religions. \nWe have learned in the Bible that God speaks, and we are to listen to his voice coming from above. It’s a voice who speaks and simultaneously creates the universe and which then becomes a word that speaks of the glory of God (cf. Ps 19: 1) \nThe word of God the Creator pervades the universe, it gives him beauty, order, and growth, writes St. Basil. It compares then this revelation with the systems presented by the pagans philosophers. They, too, have found the history of the world into which it is incorporated human history is the fruit of a long one development. So people spontaneously asked where they started, what was in the beginning. Mythology speaks of the initial chaos, about the god Chronos, about time without concrete definition, etc. Greek philosophers sought the first substance, from which the following forms of life arose – water, air, fire, etc. When their thinking improved, even religious philosophers determined that at the beginning of everything that is variable must be an immutable Being, that is God. But what kind of God? The idea of \u200b\u200bgood and beauty, absolute law. It is a perfect Being, but for its perfection. \nThe message for today closed in on each other, unable to communicate with anyone outside, that is, incapable of “words.” \nSt. John the Evangelist confronts us with the opposite statement: \n“In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and that Word was God \n(Theos). “This divine Word is the meaning of everything human and cosmic development. Do we want to suggest the main phase? \nThe first phase could be called the history of heaven and earth. God spoke his creative word: \u201cIn the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth “(Gen 1: 1). This was just the beginning because “the earth was without form and void” (Gen 1: 2). However \nWith God’s words that follow, the earth will be filled with plants and animals, all the beauty of nature. All visible nature is nothing but almost concretization, the embodiment of the divine creative Word. But how can, we, call\u00a0a word in the true sense if there is no one who \ndoes he understand them and who will answer them? And at this stage of creation, the sixth day ends with the last work of the Creator: \u201cLet us, make man,\u00a0to be our image “(Gen 1:26). He is a creature \nbut completely privileged, he is able to hear the words of God, \nbe aware of, and respond to the neck. And so it was created paradise, abiding God with people in friendly conversation.<\/h2>\n
\nThe second period is tragic. It is a history of sin. \nMan refuses to obey God’s word, he does not accept it. The disaster is coming. The creatures don’t talk to him about God, they become dumb, without words. Man no longer lives in paradise, but in desolate and formless earth, this time not in the material but in the spiritual sense. Heaven, they no longer speak of the glory of God, but appear as \u201cvanity above vanity “, as a chaotic course of events. This is how the Old Testament sage Ecclesiastes characterizes the world (1,1).<\/h2>\n
\nThe third stage of history begins with the vocation of Abraham. \nGod turns again with an intelligible word: \u201cAnd he said The Lord gave Abram … “(Gen. 12: 1), and he obeyed. So he became the father of the believers, the father of the chosen people, in which still lives the prophecy, that is, the people to whom God reveals his words, putting them in their mouths, and they communicate them to their countrymen, these are the history of biblical revelation.<\/h2>\n
\nThe fourth stage is announced by the Apostle John: \u201cAnd the Word is \nit became flesh and dwelt among us “(John 1:14) was the sixth and last day of God’s working week in the history of Israel. The Goodman appeared on earth. Through him the eternal Word of God is embodied, humanized and on the other hand, humanity understands and unconditionally accepts them. As a man, Christ does nothing but make the Father’s voice heard and give him a total answer with his life, especially at the last minute: \u201cFather, into your hands I commit my spirit “(Luke 23:46)\u00a0 So the words reached their peak. There can be no more, even more, perfect revelation. Behold dialogue enters into the eternal dialogue of the Holy Trinity. And what is our place after this so full revelation? St. John sums it up in these words: \u201cWe are all \nthey got from his fullness, grace after grace … of God.<\/h2>\n
\nThe message for today no one has ever seen it. The only-begotten God, who is in the arms of the Father, has (he) reported “(John 1.17-18). Christians are called to hear The Word of God that Christ reveals and simultaneously with Christ to give an answer throughout their lives. “Conversation, dialogue with God “is one ancient definition of prayer. \nSo it can be said that man is a dialogical creature, he is “Praying beings” (Evagrius). About St. Paul of the Cross, the founder of the Passionists, he says that nature walks led him into ecstasy. He once turned to his companion in the woods, “You can’t hear these trees and these flowers calling, ‘Love God!'” Then, overwhelmed, unable to say a single word, he finally sighed, “How is it possible not to love God?” \nThey saw him touching a stick of flowers and saying, “Shut up, shut up!”<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"