:lol: Thank you for your love.
I guess maybe I am not too smart. The logos was in the beginning with God but God has no beginning or end.
It says that the logos was in the beginning with God,; it does not say that the logos was before the beginning with God.
And as God has no beginning or end, that seems significant. How can one be in a beginning before that beginning has begun?
Why would the logos be spoken of only in that beginning and not before that beginning if John is telling us that Jesus is God?
If it were John's intent to tell us Jesus is God how simple it would have been for him to say, "The logos was before the beginning with God."
Who is reading more into that than what is there?
I mean those of you who truly do have knowledge of the Greek know that the language was very precise in that regard.
It is too easy to ignore this part just by declaring, "Oh but John did say, "The logos was God."
And at the very least it speaks as if the logos was only IN the beginning, which we know God has no beginning.
It is too difficult for you to understand only if your humility refuses to let go of preconceived thinking, but I will tell you point blank what John has very plainly in mind here:
(The Bible in Basic English) Proverbs 8:22 "The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past."
:lol: Go ahead now with the usual gnashing of teeth rather than even caring to consider that you might be wrong. :lol: