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To hear a podcast episode of this teaching, click here . John the Baptist was a prophet sent by God to testify about the man Jesus Christ, not about a pre-incarnate 2 nd person of the Trinity, nor about a pre-Genesis abstract plan of God. A commentary on the Gospel of John 1:4-8. John  1:4-5 John 1:4-5: (that which came to be) in him was life, and the life was the light of men.   5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.   (that which came to be) in him was life, See podcast #29 commenting on John 1:2-3 where I understand the verb at the end of verse 3 to go with the beginning of verse 4: “that which came to be in him was life”. Just as through the first man Adam, also through the second man, Jesus, life came to be. John’s Gospel is concerned with the resurrection, eternal life of the next age that came to be in the man Jesus Christ.   and the life was the light of men.   5 The light shines in the darkness, and the...

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...