Seth Gruber
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Now he's in his later years and he preaches a message on the incarnation in front of the infanticide walls before his entire church.
The people whose souls he has been leading.
And he talks about John 1, the logos became flesh, which in ancient Rome was insane.
The context of that, we don't understand it as evangelicals, Ali, because that's what ancient Roman politics, political leaders, and philosophers cared the most about was the concept of logos.
They thought having logos made you a person, not having logos made you a non-person, meaning our ability for language, rationality, and speech.
And so they only defined men as having logos.
They thought most women didn't have logos.
And they said that slaves, toddlers, infants and preborn babies didn't have logos, and therefore they could be treated however adult males wanted to treat them.
That's what they cared the most about.
So in Christianity, when John writes in John one, the logos
This is not a concept.
This is a person.
He's the divine logic of the universe.
He has so much logos.
When he opens his mouth, the freaking Milky Way comes out.
That's a lot of logos, Ali, to just breathe out stars.
The logos, capital L logos, takes on flesh and identifies with you as a fetus.
So every unborn child is in a way the brother of the Lord.
They share his human nature and the image of God.
So in Christianity, Logos is not a concept.