For in Him We Live

That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

(Acts 17:27-28) KJV

In him we live gives the impression that God isn’t only omnipresent but is somehow the actual material that the universe is made of. We’re in the universe, but if we’re also in God then, on some level, God and the universe are part of the same thing. God is the universe, and the universe is God, at least, an aspect of God. Which aspect? That’s something that we can deduce.

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January 20th

LEGO Ex Abyssi

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

(John 1:14) ESV

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

(1 Corinthians 8:6) ESV

Given that the Son, the Word of God, is the source and originator of creation, we may understand the Greek words legó and logos to mean: the systematic assembly of parts into a predictable sequence.

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