Pope Shenouda III
If Christ is the Reason and the Logos of God, then He is God and He is Eternal, because the Reason and Logos of God existed with God since eternity. Therefore Christ is not created because any created being does not exist before his creation. Is it reasonable for anyone to think that there was a time when God existed without Reason, then He created Reason for Himself? And with what Reason did He create Reason for Himself? The apprehension of the Trinity teaches us the Eternity of the Three Persons. The Person of the Word is of the same substance of God Himself and has existed in Him since eternity.
Therefore, the Second Person, The Logos or The Word is the Person of knowledge, or of reason or wisdom, in the Holy Trinity. lie is Christ "in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Col. 23). He is the Wisdom in the Trinity, which is why St. Paul the Apostle said that the Lord Jesus Christ is "the Wisdom of God' (I Cor. 1:24).
That is why when The Word was Incarnate, we saw God in Him, "No one has seen God at any time" (Jn. 1:18). That is to say, no one has seen God in His Divinity, but when He was Incarnate, when He was manifested bodily (ITim.3:16), we saw Him in the flesh, we saw Him Incarnate. That is why St. John the Apostle says: "No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him" (Jn. 1:18). This means that Christ declared God to us, and through Him we are able to perceive God.
