can someone please explain john 1:1 in the beginning was the word the word was with and the word was god .?

Answer 1

God said, Let it be and it was.

Heb.4:12 The word of God is powerful

John 10:34-36 Jesus said I called them gods to whom the word of God came.
John 17:3,5,24;
Jesus was with God before the world was.
Col.1:15-17
Jesus is the first creation created in the image of God. Rev.3:14; By Jesus all is.
Gen.1:26;
God said,"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."
John 1:14;
The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, the only begotton of the Father.
Matt.28:18;
All power is given [ GIVEN ], me in heaven and on earth.
Matt.3:16,17; John 3:16;
Jesus is son of God.
Matt.16:16,17; John 20:17;
Jesus is son of God.
Jesus has ascended,
John 14:13-15,26,28 [ My Father is greater than I ];
John 16:23,26; Pray in Jesus Name, the holy spirit is sent in Jesus name.
Matt.22:37-40 the first and great commandment. Matt.6:9-13 The Lord's prayer with Hallowed be thy Name.

Answer 2

Some Bible translations render it as you quoted it, however, it is incorrect and has confused many.

Texts from which a person might draw more than one conclusion, depending on the Bible translation used

If a passage can grammatically be translated in more than one way, what is the correct rendering? One that is in agreement with the rest of the Bible. If a person ignores other portions of the Bible and builds his belief around a favorite rendering of a particular verse, then what he believes really reflects, not the Word of God, but his own ideas and perhaps those of another imperfect human.

John 1:1, 2:

RS reads: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.” (KJ, Dy, JB, NAB use similar wording.) However, NW reads: “In the beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. This one was in the beginning with God.”

Which translation of John 1:1, 2 agrees with the context? John 1:18 says: “No one has ever seen God.” Verse 14 clearly says that “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us . . . we have beheld his glory.” Also, verses 1, 2 say that in the beginning he was “with God.” Can one be with someone and at the same time be that person? At John 17:3, Jesus addresses the Father as “the only true God”; so, Jesus as “a god” merely reflects his Father’s divine qualities.—Heb. 1:3.

Answer 3

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

God is our creator, In the beginning the word was already in existance. Jesus is the word of God come to us in the flesh. When Jesus was born and walked this earth as mortal man, the word of God and it's prophecy came to pass and to life. God is the Father, God is the Son and God is the Holy Ghost. If you studied the world of God, eventually He will help you to understand these words.

Answer 4

"The Word" was a term used by theologians and philosophers, both Jews and Greeks, in many different ways. In Hebrew Scripture, the Word was an agent of creation, the source of God's message to his people through the prophets, and God's law, his standard of holiness. In Greek philosophy, they Word was the principle of reason that governed the world, or the thought still in the mind, while in Hebrew thought, the Word was another expression for God. John's description shows clearly that he is speaking of Jesus - a human being he knew and loved, but at the same time the Creator of the universe, the ultimate revelation of God, the living picture of God's holiness, the one who "holds all creation together"

Answer 5

John 1:1 reads In the beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. Most Bible translations leave out the (a) where it says; was a god so it reads was god, but this is incorrect as there are many Scriptures that point to the true identity of Jesus as being the Archangel Michael. They leave the (a) out of their translation or they could not push their false doctrine of the trinity.

Answer 6

Basically it means Jesus was the word of God come to life. In the beginning God has His word with His followers, the first books of the Bible. Then His word became flesh and blood = Jesus. Because He is from God, He is with God and of God.
Confusing but I think alot of stuff that would make it clearer got left out.

Answer 7

It's like the different 'persons' of God had different functions.

The Will of the Father.
The Word of the Son.
The Action of the Holy Spirit.

All are one God. Believe me, highly credentialed professors have debated this subject for centuries in order to be able to put their finger on it. It's totally apparent in the Bible if you really get to know it.

And then you can also read in the early part of John's Gospel that the Word became flesh. With that now, you have a part of God becoming a man. In that, He's the Kinsman redeemer. So all through the Old Testament you have God being called the Redeemer. The Rock of Salvation in several places. And that remains true in Jesus the Messiah. He's all those things, and He proved His word, as God always does, in Christ.

And don't stop there! In Genesis the word that is used as God is Elohim. It's a plural name for God, otherwise translated 'gods'. But He is One, as it also says in the Bible.

So the 'nature of God' has been unfathomable for this reason. It's difficult for us to define Him. People have gone overboard in attempting to get others to accept their way of thinking about God. The 'Trinity' is one of those products of someone attempting to put their finger on the description of God. And that isn't quite there either.

The the Word is God, and was 'with' God, and then dwelt amongst men.

As Jesus said, " Before Abraham was, I AM (that is; from everlasting to everlasting) . So the Jews tried to stone Him in John 8 and 10. They thought that He was actually calling Himself God, making Himself equal with God. Because He was saying that, and He is that, but the Jews of that time were ready to kill Him for commiting blasphemy.

Answer 8

it means that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. Meaning, Jesus and God and the Holy spirit created the earth in the beginning. They were all there.

Answer 9

Hes Talking about Jesus. He's the Word of God, the message, the good news, he was in the beginning, he was and is with God, and is God

Answer 10

John 1:14
14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us...
john 1:10
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not (referring to Jesus)
John 1:11
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.


Jesus is God. One God not 3 and not 3 in one.

Det. 32:39
See now that I myself am He!
There is no god besides me.

Jesus is the express image of God's person. Hebrews 1:3.