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All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Explanation of John 1:3
작가: Brian David
It sounds strange to say that the universe was created by divine truth – “truth” doesn’t
sound like an active, building kind of thing – but it makes more sense when we think of
“truth” in its deepest sense: as love expressed, as love given form. Because the Lord was
love itself He had to create so He would have something to love. And truth is the thing
that turns love into creation, by giving love expression and giving it form.
That’s not easy to visualize. But it’s interesting – and a bit stunning – how those ideas
from the Writings were borne out by Albert Einstein 130-some years later. One of
Einstein’s most important findings was that mass and energy are really the same thing.
That’s expressed in the famous equation e=mc^2 , in which “e” is energy, “m” is mass and
“c” is the speed of light. It meant that mass – the “stuff” things are made of, the stuff we
can feel and heft – is actually made up of huge amounts of energy trapped in very small
spaces. This meant that breaking up “stuff” and releasing the energy would be very
powerful – it is the basis of nuclear weapons and powerplants – and also meant that the
universe was ultimately one big energy field, folded and crinkled to form mass, in ways
complex enough to form the world we know.
These things were not known or even imagined when the Writing were written, but
replace energy with “love” and mass with “truth” and you can see how alike it is. Truth is
love in patterns, crinkled and folded to form solid concepts, just as mass is energy in
patterns, folded and crinkled to form physical things. And that natural reality of mass and
energy is an extension of the spiritual reality of truth and love.Arcana Coelestia 9410:5Athanasian Creed 145
John 1:1-14
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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The same was in the beginning with God.
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All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.
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In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
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The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.
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There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
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The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
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He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.
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The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
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He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.
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He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him.
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But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
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who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
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The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
