If one is going to capitalize "Logos" or "Word" in John 1:1, (even if only in your mind as you read the text), then the same must be willing to treat "Logos" or "Word" in like manner anywhere else in the same Gospel account where "Logos" or "Word" appears critical to the understanding of the overall context of the same Gospel record. Otherwise one is simply engaging in what is called
special pleading. It is unacceptable to say that a particular word should receive
most favored word status insomuch that it might be capitalized in some critical places while ignoring any obverse critical implications of the very same word in other critical passages where it might contradict or refute the overall doctrine one is attempting to grasp or formulate from within that same Gospel record. In plain words, if you are going to treat a word one way, in one context, then you must be willing and able to treat that same word in the same way everywhere else if necessary, or if called upon to do so, otherwise you are only fooling yourself by making a word mean something special where you really need it to carry your special meaning, (hence,
special pleading), while ignoring the complications you have created everywhere else where that same word is found.
John 1:1
1 In the beginning was the Logos-Word, and the Logos-Word was with the Elohim, and the Logos-Word was Elohim:
What will follow below has been posted seven or eight times now herein throughout the "Religion" forum board, in various places and contexts, so I thought it might be useful to some, whosoever they may be, if this were made into a thread of its own. Swordsmen, Touché!
Here again is the supreme and very simple systematic logic taken straight from the Testimony of Yeshua himself, in the very same Gospel account which many use to supposedly prove that the man Yeshua or Jesus is "God Almighty born into human flesh", or that, "Jesus is YHWH", as many here in this board have openly claimed. But when we take certain key statements of the Master himself, as follows, the error of such claims is clearly exposed by the Testimony of Yeshua himself. We who actually believe the Testimony of Yeshua know that he says the heavens and the earth shall pass away, but his words will not pass away, (Matthew 24:35, Mark 13:31, Luke 21:33), and therefore none of these words which follow are ever going to change or pass away, never ever, but remain in effect for all time concerning anyone who actually believes the Testimony of Yeshua to be true. The first key statement is that Yeshua says his words are SPIRIT and if you follow the very simple logic laid out in sequence from the statements below there is absolutely no denying the outcome of these clear emphatic statements unless one simply is not a follower and believer of these words and statements of the Master Teacher himself.
The words of Yeshua are Spirit:
John 6:62-63
62 What then if you should behold the Son of Man ascending up [to] where he was before?
63 It is the Spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are Life.
The Father judges no one but has committed all judgment to the Son:
John 5:22
22. For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment unto the Son:
The man Yeshua does not testify of himself and therefore cannot claim to be Elohim:
John 5:31
31 If I testify of myself, my testimony is not true.
The man Yeshua emphatically states that he himself judges no one:
John 8:15
15. You judge after the flesh: I judge no one.
There is only one who judges and he is the Seeker and the Judge:
John 8:50
50. And I seek not mine own glory: one there is, the Seeker and Judge. [Rev 2:23]
The Logos-Word which the man Yeshua speaks is not his own:
John 14:24
24. He that loves me not, keeps not my sayings: and the Logos-Word which you hear is not of me, but of the Father who sent me.
The Logos-Word is the Seeker and the Judge:
John 12:47-48
47. And if anyone hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but that the world might be delivered.
48. He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him: the Logos-Word that I have spoken, that one shall judge him in the last day [Rev 19:11-16].
The Son of Elohim and the Son of Man is the Logos-Word who descended from the heavens in somatiko-corporeal-bodily form like a dove, (Luke 3:22), and abode-remained upon-within the man Yeshua throughout his ministry and Golgotha. No one has seen or beheld Elohim at any time, (John 1:18a, 1John 4:12a), because spoken word cannot be seen with the eyes of the flesh of man. The new-renewed Covenant "new Spirit" of Ezekiel 11:19, 18:31, 36:26, and John 7:39, is thus the most holy Word of the Testimony of Messiah Yeshua. Anyone claiming to have the Holy Spirit who does not have and hold the Testimony of Messiah Yeshua in uprightness and truth is therefore deceiving himself or herself.
If one is simply willing to follow the very simple and straightforward systematic flow of the logic in the above statements then Yeshua himself clearly defines who the Logos concerns: the Logos is not the man Yeshua himself but, rather, the Logos is the Logos-Word which the man Yeshua speaks. This is true because, as has now been said so many times, Testimony is SPIRIT, and that is why the Son of Elohim is also called the Son of man: for he was both written by men and prophets, and spoken through men and prophets, and therefore he is the Son of man, for Testimony is Spirit, just as Yeshua himself says that the words which he speaks are Spirit and they are Life. But the Son was in the beginning with the Father; and yet the Father gave His Son to mankind, (the Light and the Testimony of the Truth).
The Father judges no one. The man Yeshua judges no one. The Testimony of Yeshua will not pass away. The Logos is the Seeker and the Judge, the Son of Elohim, and the Son of man, and because he is the Word of the Truth which is spoken by men of faithfulness and truth; he is considered a little lower than the messengers: for the messengers speak him because he being the Logos-Word dwells in the messengers.
Once again the Testimony of Yeshua:
John 12:47-48
47. And if anyone hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but that the world might be delivered.
48. He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him: the LOGOS-WORD that I have spoken, THAT ONE shall judge him in the last day [Rev 19:11-16].
The Father judges no one, (John 5:22).
The man Yeshua judges no one, (John 8:15, John 12:47-48).
The Father has committed all judgment unto the Son, (John 5:22).
The man Yeshua does not testify concerning himself, (John 5:31).
The man Yeshua testifies concerning the Son.
The Son is therefore the only Judge.
The Father is not the Judge.
The man Yeshua is not the Judge.
The Logos-Word that Yeshua spoke is the Judge.
The man Yeshua therefore cannot be the Logos-Word.
The Logos-Word is the only begotten Elohim-Son of Elohim, (John 1:18).