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Originally Posted by Praxeas
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John is speaking "rabbinically" and in rabbinical literature, as well as biblical, One can personify certain things
Wisdom is not another person but is spoken of in that way. But in reality it was God who Created BY Wisdom
The memra being with God is a personification along the same lines.
There is another possible Option. The memra is also seen as the Angel of the LORD...not another person but a literal personification or "Hypostisization"...we might call him a Manifestation.
Being With God represents the reality prior to the incarnation...prior to the creation that before God sent His Word to Abraham and others, before He sent His Memra to earth, where was the Memra? With God
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I would explain it more like this:
If I were a programmer and created this amazing earth simulator and I wanted to interact with that virtual world then I would need to create a representation of myself inside that world. Anything I wanted to do in that virtual world would then be done by that virtual representation of me. Call it my avatar. My avatar is me in relation to the game world. However, it is with me in relation to the real world.
Now imagine instead of creating a world-earth simulator I created an ant simulator. I could still place an avatar of myself inside this ant simulator. The ants could gain an understanding of me through how my avatar interacts with them. However, they would probably not even be able to fully comprehend this avatar of myself. It would be even harder for them to comprehend that I was not actually in their world at all.
Such is the Word. It's God's representation of himself in this world. Thus the Word is God in relation to this world. And it is with God in relation to whatever God considers his "real" world.
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