John Retold: The Samantha Davidova Library Book 12

By Samantha Davidova

" I am The Way, the Truth and the Life"- A Brief Exposition of the The Gospel of John Written by Samantha Davidova ( 25th February to 16th March, 2025 ) The first chapter of the gospel of John commences with the famous prologue which may be interpreted in one of two ways, either as God''s word as representing himself active in creation and man''s salvation finding its ultimate meaning and realization in Christ''s flesh or otherwise "the word" is used as a title for Christ in Revelation 19:13 and appears to refer to him in person in 1st John 1:1 looked upon, handled and touched requiring us to understand "In the beginning..." in John 1:1 as "the beginning" of the new spiritual creation in Christ which will ultimately be manifested physically (i.e. post-resurrectionally) and Christ as the chief architect of all things in it. But to begin with the more common interpretation whereby the word is understood as an abstract personification of God''s own "thought" or "purpose" (i.e. "logos λγος" in Greek thought translated "Word" here) that was from the beginning in so much as God as a wise architect laid out the plan or blueprint of his purposed creation from the very beginning as indeed it was reflected in the ordinances of the Law according to which its principal religious institutions and structure of its sanctuary and tabernacle/ temple complex were in themselves "patterns of the heavenly things" in Hebrews 9:23 it being recalled in Hebrews 8:5 the words of Exodus 25:40 that God bade Moses make "all things according to the pattern that was being shown him upon the mountain," in other words the heavenly things being made known to him up there in the sky or upon the summit of the mountain in "the heavenly place" (i.e. "skyward") where God communed with him there and gave him a commission to build him a tabernacle (later temple) that he might dwell among his people Israel. "All things" therefore being "created" by Moses'' descending from heaven or the mountaintop skywards after the word or Logos that had been revealed to him there being divine "reason" as the radical meaning of Logos Moses set to work upon the tabernacle employing Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan to manufacture "all things" in it according to "the word" that God had revealed to him so that in this respect "the Law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ" in Galatians 3:24-25 in that throughout all its institutions and ordinances it spoke of Christ''s coming and particularly of his sacrificial death as "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" typified even before the animal offerings of the Mosaic Law in Eden to clothe Adam and Eve''s nakedness or sense of sin with its fleece. In this respect the Law showed the "reason" of God that animal sacrifices were not sufficient to remove sin and death from the world permanently but the physically unblemished animals showed the necessity of the sacrifice of the morally perfect man in their stead as reflected upon in Psalms 40:6-8, Hebrews 10:5-10 this having been reasoned out by God "from the beginning" in his word or Logos or as it really means "his divine reason" the Law''s inability to make permanent atonement showing this reason throughout its institutions and ordinances that "all these things" required Christ to be ultimately fulfilled not as typifications of didactive merit but as tangible realities whereby all that Moses created according to God''s word could not be the substance but prefigures of the very realities they implied the necessity of coming into existence thereafter particularly Christ crucified which Paul calls both "the power and wisdom of God" as wisdom was similarly personified as God''s word is in the Prologue as that attribute through which God created the universe or at least the "created order" in Proverbs 8:22-31, 35...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F6CR3PQL
• ISBN13: 9798280613430
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 115 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"