Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.
En arche ēn ho Logos, kai ho Logos ēn pros ton Theon, kai Theos ēn o Logos. –
John 1:1 (Greek text)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. –
John 1:1 (NWT)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. –
John 1:1 (KJV)
(Some translations read "the Word was divine.")
I took a different approach to this, base on my goal of unifying science and religion. The six thousand year estimate of the biblical age of the universe, has the same timing as the invention of written language. The former is dated by science. This is not a coincidence. This parallel would imply that the invention of written language altered the human psyche in a profound way. A new type of human appears.
Picture going to college or high school, at a time when there was no written language. There is no teacher notes on the overhead, no note taking, no books to study, and no tests to take. Everything has to be done by the word of mouth and listening. This is not easy.
The problem that will occur is not everyone will remember the same things the same way. Those who are better at remembering, may not remember everything said. In our study groups, agreement on many things may come down to who yells the louder, as to who is right. Even with reading, notes, and studying, we forget most of what are learn after a few months. The net result is the lessons learned, without writing, will fade away, due to no good way to duplicate the original, and then be able to refresh the fading memory, with anything that is reliability.
Science has shown that civilization had a few starts-up before the first stable civilization formed. All these start-ups were aborted. Without writing, after the creative leaders who knew how to do things, died, the lessons faded and their start up civilization started to regress back to natural.
Once writing was invented, everything changed, since even those with the worse memory had things carved in stone, to teach them and help them remember, compare and refresh. The word God was the first word of this new revolutionary invention. Books were power and they were spirit; alive.
Once people had this unnatural or manmade way to learn, remember and refresh memory, this would have caused repression of instinct. The natural loss of previous memory helps to refresh instincts. One went from fads and rituals, back to real time interaction with the environment.
Once people had a way to counter this natural inertia, via the invention, repression appears. Books were a mixed blessing, since an old book that is obsolete, but force fed to all, can be repressive. This age is when the human ego starts to evolve quickly; secondary center of consciousness. The unconscious mind would also become very active due to the repression; dreams, impulses and visions. The tree of life; instinct became sealed, as humans substituted fixed written knowledge, carved into stone, for instinct.
The bible is about the evolution of human consciousness, from natural in paradise, then into civilization, as the operating system of the human brain was culturally evolved/regressed. Not all paths were free of bugs, with the bible and other religious books, like ancient coding manuals, for the natural human brain's operating system.
For example, Greek mythology evolves from the Titans to the Olympians. The Titans were scary and wild and not very humanoid. This was the early repressed human. The change to the Olympians showed a change in the operating system from the savage impulsive animal-beast-man, to one who was more refined and human; Windows 95 to Windows 98.
Noah's Ark appears to symbolize another update, where the unconscious mind over whelmed the collective human ego; collective loss of soul. The flood was part of an un-install process. Two animals male and female symbolized male and female instinct being saved in the update.
There were other updates. The bible predicts another major update in Revelation. The un-install process is not pretty. Faith is needed to hit the right thought command lines when requested.
