God's Imagination, Concretely

Why is this like news to me? I have been reading and writing about the Milta, the Manifestation of the Ineffable Being, and how the Aramaic term Milta indicates that the Word of God is substantive--it includes the deed the word refers to, which you would not get from its Greek translation, Logos. I Google Miltha, an alternate transcription of Milta, and get directed to Yochanan (The Good News According to John) Introduction & Chapter 1, which see. Here I see the connection, that the 'said' in Genesis 1:3, "And God said," was God's Word, His Manifestation, by Whom He created the world. Gee, it only took 49 years and umpteen years of seminary and teaching and preaching to put the two together. Why isn't it the FIRST thing we teach people? "When God SAID, that Power is here right now, and Its name, from when It became a human to save us, is Jesus. Etc., etc."

Well, it must be right, because God poured on the illumination after the connection was made. First of all, why preach anything else? Secondly, God does not have a corporal body, so He would have had to IMAGINE the saying. Except He DOES have an ASSUMED corporal body, so THAT is who must have SAID, "Let there be light." It says 'said,' not 'thought.'

What I especially liked about the above mentioned article is the author's demonstration, from John's use of words and ideas in his Gospel, that John was talking about a concrete, for real human guy he knew. I still hold that John's writing is symbolic, but it is symbolism based upon his experience with the real human guy: the 'said' Power/ Manifestation of God became a man. Something for me to take seriously.

Again,

Genesis 1:3, "God said. . . " The 'said' was the Word by which God created the world, and was God. God has no corporal mouth, so the 'said' had to be IMAGINED. But it was SAID, so that means His Assumed Manifestation, God Manifest, had to be the one who spoke it corporally.

The Word, the Milta (Manifestation of the Ineffable), is YHWH, "He is."

While the Milta SAID, the Ineffable must have imagined, intended, and that manifested. The Word was first imagined. Every idle word a man speaks will be judged, but "as a man THINKETH, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7). God judges the thoughts and intents of the heart. We might ACT generous, but inwardly be begrudging. The Christian faith is that Christ, the Manifestation, is within us (2 Corinthians 13:5). The Manifestation is the Eternal, the eternity God put into our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11). "In Him was life," soul existence, living. Not just chai--life, but Chayim--LIVING.

An interesting (to me) aside: I noticed the Hebrew word asher in the text. Asher is used in Exodus 3:14. Asher does not mean the same as Ashur in Aramaic. The translation for asher given here is "for that which." Applying this to the Hebrew version of Exodus 3:14, "AHWH asher AHWH," = "I AM for that which I AM." The Assumed Manifestation? The Concretizing Word said?

"Think on these things" (Philippians 4:8). We have a powerful 'said' behind our thoughts.

What is a Jesus? What God "said" was His Imagination, which had the power to become. His Imagination with the power to become--that's the Word He said; that's what the Word IS.