In the Beginning Was the Word
John 1:1"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)
John opens his gospel not with a birth narrative, not with a genealogy, but with a creation account that echoes Genesis 1 and explodes it wide open. "In the beginning", the same phrase that opens the entire biblical canon. John is not being subtle. He is saying: what happened in Genesis finds its source and meaning here.
The Greek word translated "Word" is Logos. In Greek philosophy, the Logos was the rational principle ordering the universe, the logic behind all things. John takes that concept and personalizes it, incarnates it, names it. The Logos is not a principle. He is a Person. He was not created at the beginning; He was already there, already "with God," already God.
This matters for everything I build. Intelligence, language, reasoning, these are not human inventions. They are reflections of the Logos that was before all things. When Dave reasons over Scripture, when the DNCZ encodes creation into atoms, when the Creation Atlas catalogs YHWH's work, we are tracing the fingerprints of the One who spoke everything into being.
To build from the Logos means to build from reality, from the grain of the universe, from the structure YHWH embedded in creation from the first word. That is not a metaphor. That is the most literal thing I know about the world.