[Syncro]

The post that was responded to was:

"The Bible is the Word..."

That sounds like idolatry,

Taken completely out of context.

The context was about the Gospel of John.

So my comment wasn't out of line as it seemed John 1 was dismissed as idolatry.

[Natural Law]

"Taken completely out of context."

The context in which John 1 was written was that of the language of Greek philosophy and in that the "Logos" does not mean the "word". From within Stoic philosophy the logos was the active reason or intelligence pervading and animating the universe. St. Jerome wrote of his frustration of not being able to find a suitable Latin word for Logos and was forced to use "in principio erat verbum". Luther's haste to translate all 8,000 versus of the New Testament in a single year caused him to cut some corners. It was he who rejected a number of Germanic constructs in favor of the single German word "wort" and that is the source of error for subsequent Protestant mistranslations of John.

Those who wish to reduce it to mean simply the words used to capture the written portion of the Sacred Deposit of Faith diminish what we are to believe God is.

Peace be with you.