What does Logos mean?

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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Main stream had their reasons. Some would say that the prevailing views of the church were political and based on power and human fallibility. Others, such as myself, tend to view the anti-gnostic stance as quite orthodox and proper.Regardless of who actually wrote John, the issue as I see it is the spirit and meaning behind the words.I have always seen it as two basic flows....either God directly inspired the authors--whomever they may have been--with His Spirit....Or.Man thought himself inspired by God and wrote entirely from a human perspective.Did the word exist before people could even form words? Thats what I believe, and most of the mainstream would agree with me. Humanities later attempts to raise up through human wisdom were the heretical efforts of a fallible society. IMHO, anyway!