dwise, the first chapter of John says everything is created via the Logos, and that the Logos became flesh.....Jesus the is the Logos (the reality), which is why he said he was "the truth."
The Logos is the underlying reality of all things. Everything, at it's root, is a word (an information packet) from God that gives it it's existence. Nothing self-exists, which is one reason we should probably think of the universe as fundamentally immaterial with physical existence being a byproduct of that fundamental immaterial, spiritual and informational state.
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