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essence, is a serious error. Surely God is beyond all such terminology.
The problem lies in how the word (logos) is understood. In reality,
this belief has been around since the sixth century bce, at which time
the Greek philosopher Heracleitus taught that there was an intellect—
the logos—in the universe similar to the human mind. In the third and
fourth centuries bce, the Stoics used logos in such senses as God, na-
ture and the soul of the universe. 66

The fact that John's Gospel, written in Greek and evidently ad-
dressed to a Greek audience, begins with this concept, and that it is un-
derstood in the sense accorded to it by Greek philosophy, is no
coincidence. The Encyclopedia Britannica says: "The author of The
Gospel According to John used this philosophical expression, which
easily would be recognizable to readers in the Hellenistic (Greek cul-
tural) world, to emphasize the redemptive character of the person of
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Christ…" To put it another way, the author of John's Gospel con-
structed a false meaning for the truth of Prophet Jesus is the Word of
God by confusing it with Greek philosophy.