John 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
All came to be through him, and without him nothing made had being.
In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not suppressed it.
-from the Complete Jewish Bible
As I was coming into the Son of God revelation, John chapter 1 was a big question mark and one of my "WHAT ABOUT!??" passages.
We should include Colossians 1 and I will quote that below.
Like you, I had been taught "the WORD" was a person, Jesus Christ".
Then I realized words were also what God spoke "in the beginning"
in Genesis. ....
and as God SAID <i.e. spoke, expressed thought, the
action of saying...
... ”let there be.."
The phrase "and GOD SAID" is used 10
times in Genesis 1.
I considered the power and essence of God's utterance,
expressing with life and Spiritual power the words which brought forth the
physical creation.
Was that Jesus speaking with God or was that God Himself speaking?
4,000 years later Jesus said he spoke what he heard from God,
and that
"the WORDS that I speak, they are SPIRIT and they are LIFE".
God's Word thus
being life, Spirit, and a living word as it comes forth from Him.
The word that He
spoke conceived Christ and lived in Christ. "and the word became flesh.."
a. So now we look at 1Jn 1:1
👉That
which was from the beginning (i.e. God's Word),
("and the word became flesh..") which we have heard, which we have seen with
our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, the Word of
life; “OF” <means: of-from-by>
b. The "beginning" of a new creation through Christ, the "last Adam", (1 Cor 15) is also a second "beginning", beginning with the ministry of Jesus Christ, a man, and..
(2 For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and
bear witness, and to show you that eternal life, <the word> which was with the Father, and
was manifested to us;
Thus "God was in Christ" as the living WORDS as Christ spoke the words the Father gave him to speak.
John 8:40 But now ye seek to kill Me, a Man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard from God
John 6:63
The words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Because Jesus said he spoke what He heard from God.
again in John 14:10
Believe not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of Myself; but the Father that dwells in Me,
Again, John 6:35
It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’
Every man therefore that has heard and has learned from the Father comes to Me.
I am open to correction but that is how I now understand and
see John 1. And there is nothing there with a plain statement "Jesus is God",
-which is what people read into it when they look through the lens of traditional church thought.
John 1 is speaking of the new
creation, not the one in Genesis. John never wrote an explicit statement to believe "Jesus
is God",nor is it written anywhere in the Bible!
again, Jesus the through whom we are recreated, Galatians 6:15 For neither
being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is being
a new creation.
Again, "all were created by
Him and for Him'.
We are created for Christ, the HEAD of the Body, whose head is GOD.
The NEW creation was "in the
beginning", John 1, and began with Jesus Christ, the MAN born in Bethlehem.
The old passed away, Jesus is the author and finisher of the NEW creation.
"GOD" was not incarnated,
born, died, resurrected, only to become GOD again. We know because the man
still calls God "MY GOD" in Revelation 40 years after
GOD raised the man from the dead.
The overlooked salutation is in
conflict with the trinity-oneness error, but when correctly understood, is in
harmony with what I have pointed out in the context.
In another essay, I show the truth about Colossians 1 and "by Him were all things created".
THE WORD WAS WHAT GOD SAID, and not a person.
The WORD WAS prophetically a man through the foreknowledge of God, that which conceived and begat the man, Jesus Christ in the womb of Mary.
God did not "incarnate" or become a man, His words became a man.
May we bless God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ forever and ever.
Part 2
Understanding the words...................
That Bible Word "logos" we all heard in John 1 as "The WORD",
translates as "in the beginning was the *word*.
The *word* was with GOD, and the *word* was God".
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Logos "word" defined and used, according to the Lexicon.
Logos Noun Masculine
- of speech
- a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea
- what someone has said
- a word
- the sayings of God
- decree, mandate or order
- of the moral precepts given by God
- Old Testament prophecy given by the prophets
- what is declared, a thought, declaration, a weighty saying, a dictum, a maxim
- a word
- discourse
- the act of speaking, speech
- the faculty of speech, skill and practice in speaking
- a kind or style of speaking
- a continuous speaking discourse - instruction
- the act of speaking, speech
- doctrine, teaching
- anything reported in speech; a narration, narrative
- matter under discussion, thing spoken of, affair, a matter in dispute, case, suit at law
- the thing spoken of or talked about; event, deed
- a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea
- its use as respect to the MIND alone
- reason, the mental faculty of thinking, meditating, reasoning, calculating
- account, i.e. regard, consideration
- account, i.e. reckoning, score
- account, i.e. answer or explanation in reference to judgment
- relation, i.e. with whom as judge we stand in relation
- reason would
- reason would
- reason, cause, ground
-rory moore
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