What is The Word?

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Okay I guess we're all such seasoned Bible based Christians enough to know the our translations translate several different Greek words as "word," or "the word."

But I think what is referred to as the word is commonly thought of as the written word, or Logos.

But that is not what the written word says, at least not what the author of the gospel we call John says. John doesn't say the logos is the written word. John says the logos became flesh, and walked among us. That's not the written word.

I've already pointed out that it was Heraclitus that coined the word logos, some 600 yrs before John utilized it. To Heraclitus the logos was the creative and sustaining force of the cosmos. John was obviously using the word because it was in common currency back then, by the Greeks, and so was commonly understood.

But John applied it to Jesus. John also considered the logos as the creative and sustaining force of the cosmos, but it was Jesus from the beginning.

But the logos became flesh. So what happened to the logos after the flesh was gone? Did it go back to being the creative and sustaining force of the cosmos?