Trinitarians wish that were true. John 1:1 is about the Word of God, not Jesus, fulfilling his promises as explained in Luke's writing in Acts 3:17.
Not until v 10 & 14 is Jesus is mentioned. The Messiah is anointed by God but is not God.
Some people are so incredibly biased to what they WANT to be true, that they can’t even use the rules of grammar.
The subject of all of John 1 is THE WORD, and establishes without a doubt that THE WORD is Jesus, when it unequivocally states that THE WORD created all things including the world, and that THE WORD was made flesh and dwelt among us - that is Jesus who was made flesh, and then dwelt among us, and there’s no reasonable way of denying that clear fact.
Curtis, not to barge in from the side with a left or something, but can you tell me how a person who is with someone else, also be the very same person as that someone he/she is with or beside? Yes, it is a logic reasoning question. Is it possible?
APAK
You do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God, for it is written, with God all things are possible.
If I knew how it was possible for God to manifest as three persons, I’d be God.
I don’t have to understand it, but do have to accept it, when Philippians 2:6-7 says Jesus existed in the form of God - morphe theos - before He voluntarily emptied Himself to take the form of a man and humble servant:
Php 2:5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
Php 2:6 who,
though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Php 2:7 but
emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Php 2:8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
The plural nature of God is clearly shown in the Hebrew Scriptures, and some ancient rabbis have acknowledged that in the Zohar - such as the word for God in Genesis 1, which literally means GODS in Hebrew, and the plural form of God said let US, make man in OUR image.
Genesis 1 doesn’t say that the singular name of God said let ME make man in MY image
Elohim, Hebrew Dictionary:
H430 (Strong)
אֱלֹהִים
'ĕlôhı̂ym
el-o-heem'
Plural of H433;
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: - angels, X exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Total KJV occurrences: 2601
Who created the heavens and the earth? God.
Who made the world, including every single thing without exception, then was manifest in the flesh and was born into the world that He made?
Jesus.
John 1:1, 10, 14
Col 1:16 For
by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
Col 1:17 And
he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.