4. The word became flesh; John 1:14,15

The same word by which God had called all things into existence came to Mary approximately four thousand years after Adam, and to her was communicated the following:

… holy spirit shall come upon thee, and power of the Most High shall overshadow thee;
therefore also the holy thing that is begotten shall be called Son of God.
Luke 1:35

It is this Divine word by which Mary (without the intervention of a man) became pregnant. Therefore, John declares in his prologue:

And the Word (LOGOS) became flesh,
and did tabernacle among us,
and we beheld his glory,
a glory as of an only begotten of a father…
John 1:14

Not God’s Son became man, but God’s word became flesh. God begat the Son through His word (= “power of the Most High”). “The word” was the speaking expression of God, but when it became flesh, it became someone. “The word” (neuter, abstract) became “Him.” And because He is the word become flesh, one of His names since then is “the Word of God” (Rev. 19:13).

It is as “Word of God” that Scripture speaks of Christ’s preexistence. He did not preexist as ‘Jesus,’ for that name was given to Him only at His circumcision (Luke 2:21). Nor did He preexist as ‘Son,’ for He is called Son of God on the basis of His Divine begetting in Mary (Luke 1:35). From “the beginning” the word was there, and that word became flesh. Therefore, John the Baptist testified:

This was he of whom I said, He who after me is coming, hath come before me,
because he was before me.
John 1:15

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