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Outline notes for One God Report Podcast #18 To hear the full podcast click here . In the previous podcast, Rivers and I reviewed reasons for understanding the first phrase of John’s Gospel “In the beginning” as a reference to the new beginning that God is bringing about through Jesus the Messiah. 1. In this podcast we consider how to best understand what or who John meant in by the word “word” in the phrase: “In the beginning was the W/word ”. The Greek word for “word” is logos . We will often refer to the word, “word” using this Greek term, logos . 2. As with the phrase “in the beginning” the meaning of logos, “word” in John’s prologue is best understood and defined first and foremost by other uses of the same word in John’s Gospel. We shouldn’t ignore or dismiss how the author himself uses logos and go looking for its meaning in other extra-biblical literature.   Logos and in its various forms occur nearly 40 times in the Gospel of John, and in the vast majority of occu...

Summary notes for the One God Report podcast, "The Evolution of the Trinity, Part 1", Interview with Dr. Dale Tuggy First, in AD 100s, we don’t have any sources for what the average Christian believed. What we do have are some sources from elite writers who were heavily influenced by Hellenistic, or Greek philosophy. These elites made a strong push for a centralized authoritarian church government led by bishops in major Roman population centers. Later, these bishops would vote to determine church policy and doctrine. Another main feature of the 100s AD was the emergence of Christian Logos theories. Logos is the Greek word for “word” in John 1:1. Logos theories were an adaption of earlier Greek philosophical speculations, especially of Plato, who maintained that the ultimate Good or Ultimate Source was too transcendent, too distinct, too separate from the physical world to either make the world or have interaction with the world directly. Rather, the...