The Word of God

John 1:1

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God."

It is clear that if God has a word, it will not be a vocal word, of air, shaped by lungs and throat and tongue and teeth. God is not like that. God is a pure spirit and His word must be a word in the mind, in other words, a thought or an idea.

God knows infinitely, but knows what? The finite can never be an adequate object of infinite knowledge. The only adequate object of infinite knowledge is the Infinite, God Himself. God, knowing Himself with infinite knowledge, thinking of Himself with infinite power, generates an idea of Himself. The idea, the Word that God generates, is Infinite, Eternal, Living, a Person, equal in all things to Him who generates it.

Paul writes in Colossians 1:15:

"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation."

The Infinite Father generates an Infinite Son, resembling Himself infinitely. The infinite Thinker, thinking of Himself, generates an infinite Idea, resembling Him infinitely.

However , a thought is not the thinker - if God's thought was a person, He is most definitely a distinct person.

The Son proceeds from God by way of knowledge. God knows Himself, this act of knowing Himself produces an idea, a Word, and this idea, this Word, is the perfect image of Himself.