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When scritpure says that Christ is the Word and the word was made flesh is it saying that the life of Christ which was manifested to the world through Jesus is the life described in the written word, the Old Testament? Notice the following verses.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God... In Him was life.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
This is obviously talking about Jesus. Notice that this Word is also the Word of Life.
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life— the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us— that which we have seen and heard we declare to you.
Then Jesus confirms that he came to fulfill the Old Testament.
“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
Now we know what was commanded in the OT.
For this Law I give you today is not too hard for you, or too far from you. It is not in heaven. You do not need to say, 'Who will go up to heaven for us and bring it down to make us hear it, so we may obey it?' It is not farther than the sea. You do not need to say, 'Who will cross the sea for us and bring it to us to make us hear it, so we may obey it?' But the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.
See, I have put in front of you today life and what is good, and death and what is bad.
But we also know that the Jews did not attain to the righteous requirements of the law because they sought it apart from Christ. But will some attain it?
For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us
This law must be none other than that which was given to the Jews in the Old Testament. Why, Jesus suffered the curse of that law.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
So then, in Romans 8 the righteousness of the law spoken of must also be that of the OT law given to the Jews. And, if so, then the law of the New Covenant which is written in our hearts must also be the law of the OT, though today we don't follow the letter of that law but we effectively keep it in spirit if we truly love God and our neighbor. "For love is the fulfilling of the law."
Don't get a bad taste in your mouth because the subject of the law is brought up. If you love God and your neighbor then you are fulfilling the law. You are a walking testimony that God has written his law in your heart, if you love his law, and in your mind, if you comprehend the law.
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
This just has to be the same law. Then Christ is the law and the prophets made flesh. Truly, God's law was written in his heart and mind. Truly, he loved God and his neighbor and so fulfilled the law. Truly, the law of God was written in the fleshy tables of his heart.
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