A linguistic paradigm
Dec 23, 2013 10:05:20 GMT
Post by Colossians on Dec 23, 2013 10:05:20 GMT
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A LINGUISTIC PARADIGM
The word "word" which refers to Christ, derives from the Latin "verbum". Thus "verbal" implies "spoken".
In structural linguistics we learn that the verb is the 'head' of the noun which enters into construction with it. So in "I am", "am" is head and "I" is the dependent.
Nouns and verbs exist as the primary syntactic units in language: one cannot express meaning without them.
So the verb expresses (predicates something of) the noun, thus resulting in the fact that although the noun is said to 'govern' the verb (the verb is altered to accommodate the noun: "I am", "She is", "We are"), the noun is (nevertheless) necessarily dependent on the verb for the expression of itself.
Accordingly we find in scripture that He who is the Word, is the "express image of God", which aligns with His sonship. That is, although the Father governs the Son (He is the "I" in "I am"), He is necessarily dependent on the Son for the expression of Himself, as all fathers are. And thus Christ has said:
"He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" John 14:9.
So "I" governs "am", yet is also dependent on "am": the Father governs the Son yet is also dependent on the Son.
The Father then is "I (am)", in which the noun is primary and the verb implied, and the Son "(I) am" in which the verb is primary and the noun implied.
So then it is written:
“But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things [(“of” is genitive and thus speaks to nominality)], and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things [(“by” implies activity and thus verb)]” 1 Cor 8:6.
So the Father and the Son are one as "I am", the Father being the noun and thus the 'immovable' state of the Godhead (to which James 1:17 primarily speaks), and the Son being the verb and thus the expression and image of the Godhead. The two are necessarily interdependent, and cannot exist without each other: "I" has no meaning if "am" is not implied, and "am" has no meaning if "I" is not implied.
And so Father and Son, being a noun and a verb, can make a sentence. For every sentence needs both a noun and a verb.
What is the sentence they make?
Well in the old testament they made the sentence “I am that [which] I am” Ex 3:14.
That was good, but we needed to know what exactly it was that He was.
So in the New Testament He told us all we needed to know:
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” Heb 13:8.
Amen.
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A LINGUISTIC PARADIGM
The word "word" which refers to Christ, derives from the Latin "verbum". Thus "verbal" implies "spoken".
In structural linguistics we learn that the verb is the 'head' of the noun which enters into construction with it. So in "I am", "am" is head and "I" is the dependent.
Nouns and verbs exist as the primary syntactic units in language: one cannot express meaning without them.
So the verb expresses (predicates something of) the noun, thus resulting in the fact that although the noun is said to 'govern' the verb (the verb is altered to accommodate the noun: "I am", "She is", "We are"), the noun is (nevertheless) necessarily dependent on the verb for the expression of itself.
Accordingly we find in scripture that He who is the Word, is the "express image of God", which aligns with His sonship. That is, although the Father governs the Son (He is the "I" in "I am"), He is necessarily dependent on the Son for the expression of Himself, as all fathers are. And thus Christ has said:
"He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" John 14:9.
So "I" governs "am", yet is also dependent on "am": the Father governs the Son yet is also dependent on the Son.
The Father then is "I (am)", in which the noun is primary and the verb implied, and the Son "(I) am" in which the verb is primary and the noun implied.
So then it is written:
“But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things [(“of” is genitive and thus speaks to nominality)], and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things [(“by” implies activity and thus verb)]” 1 Cor 8:6.
So the Father and the Son are one as "I am", the Father being the noun and thus the 'immovable' state of the Godhead (to which James 1:17 primarily speaks), and the Son being the verb and thus the expression and image of the Godhead. The two are necessarily interdependent, and cannot exist without each other: "I" has no meaning if "am" is not implied, and "am" has no meaning if "I" is not implied.
And so Father and Son, being a noun and a verb, can make a sentence. For every sentence needs both a noun and a verb.
What is the sentence they make?
Well in the old testament they made the sentence “I am that [which] I am” Ex 3:14.
That was good, but we needed to know what exactly it was that He was.
So in the New Testament He told us all we needed to know:
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” Heb 13:8.
Amen.