Whoever wrote the Gospel of John (it was not the disciple John; he was long dead by the time the Gospel was written some time around 100 C.E.) was himself a Greek-speaking Roman citizen steeped in Hellenistic philosophy. His readers were also Greek-speaking Roman citizens living in a Hellenistic world. And so, when John uses the word Logos to launch his gospel, he very likely means it the way the Greeks did: as the primal force of creation through which all things came to be.
