[Buddha-l] Energy and "The Word"

[Bob Zeuschner]

The way I learned it is that the Christian term "Word" is one English 
rendering of the Greek LOGOS, and this technical term is explained in 
great detail by Plotinus and the Neo-Platonists. Augustine also has a 
commentary on Logos somewhere.
As I recall their explanation, Logos has nothing to do with expelling 
air or sound waves.
As I read Genesis, Elohim is "brooding over the waters" before Elohim 
creates the universe by SAYING (?) "Fiat Lux" (make it light).
Thus stuff exists before God creates, so it is not ex nihilo.
Bob

Jim Peavler wrote:
> 
  > John, famously, begins his gospel with;
> 
> 	In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the  
> Word was God.
> 	The same was in the beginning with God.
> 	All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made  
> that was made.
> 	In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
> 	And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it  
> not.
> 
> This is the only creation story I can recall offhand from the new  
> testament. It tells the creation story all the way from the pre- 
> creation to the beginning of the preaching career of John the Baptist.
> 
> I have a difficult time comprehending the "Word", as used here, as  
> literally a spoken sound. It has to be some kind of truly transcendent  
> essence or power that comprises spirit, and mind, and existence, and a  
> host of other things that precede all things.
> 
> And it seems to comprise all things that have ever been or can ever  
> be. Maybe it is the opposite of "emptiness". Maybe it is "fullness".  
> It may refer to the plenum.
> 
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