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Was John's Christmas Gospel the Original Beat Poetry?

Different parts of the Christmas story that we understand come from different gospels. John, the Gospel of John. It's something different, isn't it? What wisdom was he trying to light up and shine onto this world? To me, it sounds just a little bit like beat poetry. Do you remember the Beat Poets? Right. It's this movement that came actually outta World War II and people feeling really concerned about the future of the world. And, they would do these spoken poems, right. Dum, dum, dum, dum... listen to this now.... bum, bum, bum.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom...

he was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him and without him, not one thing came into being. Boom, boom, boom. Right? Are you hearing it? Are you feeling it? A little, little beat poetry and, and then remember how they would applaud.

I'm getting none? I, I mean, I threw it out there, right? I, you know, I'm, but then get down to verse 14 , and the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory.

The glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth. Probably the main point of what John was trying to get to, this is the birth of Jesus for John. This is what was most important to this gospel writer. The spirit becoming flesh, becoming present. For him it's this, I'm gonna use the word cosmological event.

It's not this earthly event, it's something broader than that with this idea that Jesus was the Word, right? And you think about a word, a spoken thing that's out into the air or maybe written down, but that word already existed before the world even existed. This idea that Jesus has always existed but finally took earthly form here in this one moment. This one moment, the Word, the spirit becomes flesh.