Aspen…I don’t think ‘anything goes’ reflects my writings at all. Well you must have your reasons for saying it….your perspective and not mine.
Now it seems you are a die-hard John 1:1-2 Jesus = (W)ord follower. You know you have to prove that of course if you do not want to follow some type of blind faith that actually is not in scripture. I would if I were you!
I believe you cannot support your claim with scripture. And you have to explain yourself with scripture by not just throwing down scripture after scripture that seems to hit or the cover the target without any zealous rational and logical support. You know the onus is on you to explain it, and not I as you believe it, not I.
Let me share an experience or exchange I recently had, a few weeks back, on scripture concerning you John 1:1-2. I was speaking to a Lutheran pastor. I said you know God is not triune and Jesus is not God. I said most folks use their unexplainable John 1:1-2 scripture for their holy grail support. He said no, that scripture does not show this claim. Look at Hebrew 1:8 where God gave a throne to his God. I told him the translators deliberately added bias and by being inconsistent; they added a capital ‘G’ instead of a lower-case ‘god’ and anyway, that the translation should actually be ‘the mighty one.’ He did not comment. We did agree that God did elevate Jesus above all. Not his Father though I quickly pointed out. He became silent again. Then he suddenly said well it’s a mystery right. I said no. So, he said you don’t believe that there are mysteries in scripture? Yes, although not when it comes to knowing who God Almighty Jesus’ Father, I said. We then departed ways…
Bless you,
APAK