Literalism gets its name from its insistence that what
we find in the Bible is not just the Word of God but
the very words of God. The distinction is of tremendous
importance. The phrase "Word of God" as used in the
Bible itself, notably in the opening sentences of the
Fourth Gospel, is an English translation of a Greek word,
Logos, which was in wide use among philosophers at the
time the New Testament was written. It connotes the
creative, outgoing, self-revealing activity of God.
The Logos was not a particular divine utterance, but
God's overall message to mankind. It was not necessarily
communicated verbally in speech or writing. Indeed, the
whole point of Christianity is that the supreme
communication of the Word took place when it was
expressed through a human life and personality in
Jesus Christ.
~Louis Cassels~
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