The Logos was with God in the beginning, before anything existed, and all things came into being through him; thus he was present at creation and was an agent of the creation of all that exists (1.1-4).  John refers to Christ as the Logos only in the Prologue.  After this, John's title for Jesus is “the Son of God” and “the Messiah” or “Christ.”  The Logos is God, and the glory of the Logos is the glory of the unique Son of God.  After he came into the world, he is given the title monogenēs  para  patēr.  Although many second century writers translated the word monogenēs as “only begotten,” other authors in John's time rendered this word to show that Jesus was a “unique son”, rather than “an only begotten son”.  In Jewish accounts of God's instruction to Abraham regarding the boy Isaac, Abraham was told to “sacrifice your son, your only son, whom you love” (Genesis 22.2).