In The Beginning (John 1:1ff)

  

What do you think “In the Beginning” means?

 

Does it mean “time”?

 

Does it mean “place” or “space”?

 

Does it mean “Person”?

 

Might it primarily mean “Person” and out of that also mean time and place?

 

Should we have an upper case “B” or a lower case “b”? How might we understand this?

 

 

Considering that “In the Beginning was the Word…”

 

When society calls “good evil and evil good” we not only have the repudiation of notions of right and wrong, of good and evil  - beyond that we have the repudiation of language, that remarkable gift of God to humanity.

 

Not only does language not mean anything anymore, we’ve made a game of this insanity. We laud those who can “spin” a message, a set of facts, a situation – we rejoice in the destruction of language.

 

During my last few years in the corporate world, more than once I had to direct advertising and marketing people to rework ad copy because it did not represent the facts of the products we were marketing (in my case these were apartment communities).

 

When language ceases to be language, all we can do is grunt…or use Twitter. Sustained thought seems to have escaped us.

To repudiate language is to repudiate the Word, that which was given to us out of eternity.

 

What do you see in those first few verses in John’s Gospel?