NOTES for Joh 1:1-18
The Greek word "Logos," in different contexts, means not only "word," but also "meaning," "purpose," "knowledge," "reason," and even "way"... Then the incarnation of the Word is both the manifestation of Divine Reason for people, and the disclosure of His Purpose, and the revelation of the Way, and the appearance of the fullness of Communion (Participation), and all this in the one God-human person of Jesus Christ, who lived in this world, walked on this earth beside the disciples, who "saw, heard, and touched" Him (cf. 1 John 1:1).
The Gospel is always the testimony about Christ given by those who knew Him. We have the right not to believe them; we may take their words about grace, truth, and glory as a lie or as sincere error, as a poetic metaphor or an enthusiastic exaggeration - and then the Good News will not reach us, and we will gain neither meaning, nor communion, nor the way.