Whatever.......it was John's Gospel that converted the Greeks due to his prologue "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the WOrd was God...."
"Word" in Greek is "Logos," which also had connotations of 'order'--as in 'ordered creation.' The Greeks could care less about Moses, Isaiah, (et al)--but they cared very much about 'order.'
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or perhaps by the Essenes--some argue he was writing to disciples of John the Baptist.
Whatever.......it was John's Gospel that converted the Greeks due to his prologue "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the WOrd was God...."
"Word" in Greek is "Logos," which also had connotations of 'order'--as in 'ordered creation.' The Greeks could care less about Moses, Isaiah, (et al)--but they cared very much about 'order.'
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