It was long ago, centuries before Christ came in the flesh, when the doctrine of the ‘Logos’ was taught. Heraclitus and then the Stoics were among the main teachers of it. The Cosmic Ledger. Yet Genesis taught it too. God spoke, saying “Let this and that happen”, and it happened, but first, before it happened, there was that Word going forth. It was metaphorically etched onto the fabric of existence, and it stayed there until it came to pass as God had spoken. The Logos teaching is rather like saying this Word must be there on the fabric of existence, like in a kind of Cosmic Ledger. Think how people place orders for their business, and keep a ledger, perhaps setting aside budget codes or commitment codes for each order placed, so that ledger record exists to say an amount will be spent to pay for what is ordered, and the record will sit there as evidence of the transaction which will settle the payment for the order. The universe has a ledger. When God creates, He pronounces what must be, and the word He speaks exists, like in a ledger, to bring about what He said. The word is spoken and the ledger receives each wisely spoken word, like a dutiful son learning from the Father teacher. All that is spoken mounts up into a corpus of words of wisdom from the Father, embodied in the Son. This is the Word, the Logos. It is a spirit matter. The spirit of the ledger—of the student of the words—existed from the beginning. John in his gospel seems to have taken this a step further and given this teaching as the start of the Gospel, in which he states that the Word then became flesh. Jesus Christ.
