Bob Hamp

He begins to speak and everything changes. The Story begins and nothing will ever be the same. HisStory is set in motion. Not everyone can unfold a new reality simply by opening their mouth. But He is not like anyone who exists…in fact He is…pre-existent. We can’t really understand that, the best we can do is say it. Because our minds exist we can’t truly process pre-existence as a way of being. You just have to take my word for it. We can think about it we just can’t think from it.
So He opens His mouth, and what is In-Him becomes Around-Him. Everything described in the previous post, the forest-fire nature that is His Consuming Nature, begins to come out of pre-existence and into existence. Out of His Heart and into space.

In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. (Genesis 1:1)

How He did this matters.

He “Spoke”. I am not quite sure if He actually has lips or vocal chords, but He clearly has some aspect of Himself that expresses outwardly what is true of Him inwardly. Some part of His Nature brings things from pre-existence into existence. What we would call our “mouth” He calls His Logos, or in English, His Word. It (He) is the part of God that makes known the mysteries of the inner-workings of our Creator. Not just known but know-able. The Logos is the part of Him that makes available and accessible to humans the mysteries and nature of God.

In the beginning was The Word and The Word was God and The Word was with God. (John 1:1)

The Bible says He “calls into existence things that are not”. But that description comes from our vantage point. He might say He makes manifest, or visible to humans, what has always been, in Him. “Existence” is where He deposits these things but they have “always been” in His nature.

The visible creation makes known the invisible attributes of God. (Romans 1:20)

Out of Him came mountains and oceans, out of Him came DNA and Plankton. Out of Him came romance and adventure, out of Him came life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And out of Him came all that is good and right in the world. He brought these things into a realm and a state where men could interact with them.

And then He made men.

Amazingly, this part of Him that makes known and know-able the inner mysteries of God would one day become a man. Central to the story, His Story, is the act of making known, the part of Him which would become like His creation on behalf of His creation. Central to His Story is how He would act and what He would do as an actor in His own play. But I am getting ahead of myself.

For now it is important to know that the way He made stuff was though this mechanism in HIs nature that He called Logos. The closest thing we have to this act is speaking. But it is not really close.

When we speak, out of our mouths come symbols (Words, pieces of language) which represent realities. When He speaks, realities actually come out. How He wrote the story, and how He moved the story becomes an important part of the story itself. He put it in motion by speaking, and He is still speaking today. Listen.