{"id":114500,"date":"2026-11-08T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=114500"},"modified":"2026-11-08T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T14:06:13","slug":"what-does-logos-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/what-does-logos-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Was bedeutet Logos? Das griechische Wort hinter \u201edem Wort\u201c in Johannes 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Logos (\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2, said LOH-goss) is the ordinary Greek word for &quot;word&quot;: a thing said, together with the thought it carries. It comes from the verb leg\u014d, &quot;to say&quot;, and the New Testament uses it 330 times for a message, a saying, a report or a reckoning of accounts. In the opening of John&#039;s Gospel it becomes a name for Jesus Christ: &quot;In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God&quot; (John 1:1),\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? 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The New Testament uses it 330 times for messages, sayings and accounts, and John makes it a name for Jesus, the one through whom God has spoken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-114500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114643,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/dion-dimucci-faith\/","url_meta":{"origin":114500,"position":0},"title":"Dion DiMucci&#8217;s Faith: Addiction, Christ and the Catholic Church","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"November 8, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Dion DiMucci quit heroin after a prayer in 1968, says he had a vision of Christ in 1979, spent 18 years as a Protestant and came home to Catholicism in 1997.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Christian History&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Christian History","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/category\/christian-history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Jesus healing the sick, in the style of Caravaggio","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jesus-healing-caravaggio-78ec5773.webp?fit=900%2C672&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jesus-healing-caravaggio-78ec5773.webp?fit=900%2C672&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jesus-healing-caravaggio-78ec5773.webp?fit=900%2C672&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jesus-healing-caravaggio-78ec5773.webp?fit=900%2C672&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":114647,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/arian-church-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":114500,"position":1},"title":"Is There an Arian Church Today? 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