IN THE BEGINNING: GOD AND LANGUAGE Part 1

John 1: 1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The Bible defines God as the Word but what exactly does that mean? The word ‘WORD’ in the Greek tongue is LOGOS which is a common suffix for many English words such as Technology, Psychology, Biology, Zoology etc. The biblical usage of this word contains within itself the idea of ‘Intelligence’. When the Bible defines God as the Word the meaning that is conveyed is the following: God is THE INTELLIGENCE that has an infinite capacity for language and therefore God’s intelligence is infinite. INTELLIGENCE = LANGUAGE. That which separates us from animals and makes us intelligent is our capacity for language; that is our ability to express thoughts and ideas in words. Similarly that which separates us from God is the difference in our abilities to use language. God’s ability for the use of language is infinite whereas with man it is finite and therefore man can never become God just as a monkey can never become man without a similar capacity for language as man. God’s language capabilities are intrinsic whereas that of man is a gift from his creator. In a manner of speaking God is intelligence whereas man and other created beings have artificial intelligence. As we will see artificial intelligence can be taken away just as easily by the one who bestows this gift in the first place. In essence the bible defines God as an all powerful, immaterial invisible intelligent sentient being; all created things are a product of this intelligence; born as a result of thoughts and ideas that first arose in the mind of God, and which were given shape and form through the means of language born in the mind and expressed as speech. However it will become apparent that God’s speech is not necessarily any sounds that humans make, that is it is not a human language. God’s speech is ENERGY, when God speaks what transpires is that his thoughts and ideas are expressed in the form of ENERGY. The following scripture from Hebrews 4:12 tells us explicitly that the WORD OF GOD IS ENERGY! Even in humans the spoken word is expressed in the form of sound waves or sound energy, how much more is this true for God?

¹²For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12, King James Version) The word ‘powerful’ used in Hebrews 4:12 is the Greek word ENERGEO from which the English word ENERGY has been transliterated. So the bible tells us the before anything existed, GOD THE INTELLIGENCE, THE MIND, THE ENERGY existed; intelligence, mind, and energy occupy no space or time and therefore God needs not have a beginning in time and space, he is the beginning of time and space.

¹⁰For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: ¹¹So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Isaiah 55:10-11, King James Version). God is able to make a claim as he does in Isa 55 that his word will not return unto him void but will accomplish his purposes; he is able to make such claims because his Word is energy, is power that is able to bring into existence everything that is expressed through the words of God that are released into the universe through sound energy. This is how the cosmos came into being as stated in Hebrews 11:3,

³Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Hebrews 11:3, King James Version). If the worlds were framed by the Word of God, how were they framed by mere words? Well, the fact of the matter is that they were not mere words but rather energy, sound energy, sonic energy that became matter as defined by the language of the creator expressed in words of living energy. So Language is not mere empty words, language when expressed sonically is power, it is energy that can shape matter and bring into existence things seemingly out of nothing. It is however important to understand that the bible does not teach Ex-Nihilo creation, that is creation out of nothing. It specifically and categorically states that everything began with the Word of God, the Language of God, the Intelligence of God, the Mind of God, the thoughts of God, the Understanding of God. Everything was first shaped in God’s mind that can be compared to a super computer. In human terminology I can think of no other analogy so I use that of the computer. Information can be processed inside a computer and made visible on the screen before it may ever see any manifestation in the natural outside world. For example a building may be ‘built’ on a computer from foundation to rooftop long before it would ever see any actual real manifestation. So it is with God, everything was first conceived in his mind, and to do that what is required is the faculty of language. So God used his infinite language capabilities, like that of a super computer, to fashion everything on the screen of his mind; then in time everything that he had defined in his mind using was given shape and form by expressing it sonically, that is the words that were in his mind were spoken, And God said…..that act of expressing his thoughts brought everything into existence! The words that God spoke were living energy that had the power to create the very matter that would be necessary to form the corporeal, and non corporeal universe including intelligent life.

God not only has intelligence but is THE INTELLIGENCE that can express any thought or idea in WORDS. The beginning of all things is Language not the big bang. Nothing can exist that has not first been expressed in words, PERIOD. This is the reason why God is infinite and omnipotent; there is no thought or idea that can exist that God is unable to express in words or that is beyond God’s intelligence. God’s language is infinite and therefore God is infinite. This is why evolution is such an asinine idea; that something can exist that did not have its genesis in language; that is as a thought or an idea in someone’s mind first is absolutely ludicrous. Rev. 4:11, “for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” All created things began as thoughts and ideas in God’s mind and came into existence as they were expressed in words by God not words of English or Hebrew or Greek but rather words that came forth as pure infinite living energy. This understanding of the language of God or the Word of God is little or not studied at all in so – called Christian circles; divine harmonics and the power of sound energy are subjects of study among new age and Eastern mystical religions. However, the only possible explanation for the eternal existence of God as a non – created being is that of God Himself being immaterial, living sentient energy, and that energy has to be that of sound, of the Word, of the Language of God. This is just the beginning of my study of this subject that is of fundamental importance because it is in this understanding that our understanding of God our Maker will reach new levels, far beyond the fundamentals of the milk of Christianity. This is a subject of strong meat and therefore deserving of careful, and prayerful study. God willing, I will have more time to spend in the study of the subject of language so that the whole body becomes better equipped to answer the question of our origins and of the true nature of the biggest mystery in the universe, God Almighty himself.