In the last part, we saw that the WORD is also God. This could give the impression that the spoken word is also a cause, but this is not correct. Everything that comes from God becomes creation. Creation is the result of his speaking. God alone is the cause. He can therefore be given the name “the WORD” because the Word comes into being from him. The Bible also says that God is love. This means that love emerges from him. However, it is not Himself, but an effect of God. So God is spirit, a person, and he is the word because HE speaks it.
Since Adam's self-deception, all people have lived in darkness and blindness towards themselves - they are in death or in non-existence. Light and darkness are located inside the human spirit, in its heart. Light stands for life, truth and freedom, while darkness symbolizes death, lies and imprisonment. The world is shrouded in darkness because people's hearts are blind.
A central Bible verse reads: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw his glory...” (John 1:14). Here it becomes clear that God became man as the WORD. Why was this necessary? If darkness and death lie within the human spirit, only there could healing take place. A spirit can only control itself from within. In order to free man from his self-deception, God had to enter his spirit. But this alone would not have been enough. The already dead being had to be completely buried. Therefore, after freeing man from self-deception, Jesus had to bury him completely in order to create a new man through his resurrection. This is a creative work that no teaching and no human being can accomplish.
We will also look at the law of inheritance and examine why we are born dead and bind ourselves to other people - which ultimately leads to our destruction and makes us slaves. We will also take a closer look at how the WORD became flesh and how Jesus was conceived in Mary through the Holy Spirit. The incarnation of Jesus - the connection between God and man - remains a mystery. But through Jesus Christ, we can bind ourselves to God again. In the third part of the series “Themes in the Gospel of John”, we will examine these topics in more detail.