Does this Bible verse prove that Jesus is God? Explain.?

Question

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

John 1:1, 14

From KJV version

Answer 1

What Jesus taught and what he did are tied inseparably to who he is. John shows Jesus as fully human and fully God. Although Jesus took upon himself full humanity and lived as a man, he never ceased to be the eternal God who has always existed, the Creator and Sustainer of all things, and the source of eternal life. This is the truth about Jesus, and the foundation of all truth. If we cannot or do not believe this basic truth, we will not have enough faith to trust our eternal destiny to him. That is why John wrote this Gospel—to build faith and confidence in Jesus Christ so that we may believe that he truly was and is the Son of God (20:30, 31).
John wrote to believers everywhere, both Jews and non-Jews (Gentiles). As one of Jesus’ 12 disciples, John was an eyewitness so his story is accurate. His book is not a biography (like the book of Luke); it is a thematic presentation of Jesus’ life. Many in John’s original audience had a Greek background. Greek culture encouraged worship of many mythological gods, whose supernatural characteristics were as important to Greeks as genealogies were to Jews. John shows that Jesus is not only different from but superior to these gods of mythology.
What does John mean by “the Word”? 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 (Psalm 33:6), the source of God’s message to his people through the prophets (Hosea 4:1), and God’s law, his standard of holiness (Psalm 119:11). In Greek philosophy, the 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 (see especially 1:14)—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” (Colossians 1:17). To Jewish readers, to say this man Jesus “was God” was blasphemous. To Greek readers, “the Word became human” (1:14) was unthinkable. To John, this new understanding of the Word was the Good News of Jesus Christ.
“The Word became human.” By doing so, Christ became (1) the perfect teacher—in Jesus’ life we see how God thinks and therefore how we should think (Philippians 2:5-11); (2) the perfect example—as a model of what we are to become, he shows us how to live and gives us the power to live that way (1 Peter 2:21); (3) the perfect sacrifice—Jesus came as a sacrifice for all sins, and his death satisfied God’s requirements for the removal of sin (Colossians 1:15-23).
“The only Son of the Father” means Jesus is God’s only and unique Son. The emphasis is on unique. Jesus is one of a kind and enjoys a relationship with God. He is unlike all believers, who are called “children of God.”
When Jesus was born, God became a man. He was not part man and part God; he was completely human and completely divine (Colossians 2:9). Before Christ came, people could know God partially. After Christ came, people could know God fully because he became visible and tangible in Christ. Christ is the perfect expression of God in human form. The two most common errors people make about Jesus are to minimize his humanity or to minimize his divinity. Jesus is both God and man.

Answer 2

Notice how other translations render this part of the verse:


1808: "and the word was a god." The New Testament in an Improved Version, Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome's New Translation: With a Corrected Text.

1864: "and a god was the word." The Emphatic Diaglott, interlinear reading, by Benjamin Wilson.

1928: "and the Word was a divine being." La Bible du Centenaire, L'Evangile selon Jean, by Maurice Goguel.

1935: "and the Word was divine." The Bible—An American Translation, by J. M. P. Smith and E. J. Goodspeed.

1946: "and of a divine kind was the Word." Das Neue Testament, by Ludwig Thimme.

1950: "and the Word was a god." New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures.

1958: "and the Word was a God." The New Testament, by James L. Tomanek.

1975: "and a god (or, of a divine kind) was the Word." Das Evangelium nach Johannes, by Siegfried Schulz.

1978: "and godlike kind was the Logos." Das Evangelium nach Johannes, by Johannes Schneider.

These are better renditions of John 1:1 because how can the Word be with God and God at the same time? It would not make sense.

Answer 3

The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, says that Jesus came onto the earth and lived. and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, says that the only begotten Son of God came to earth and humans saw Him, and saw the light that He permeated out of His being.

Answer 4

genesis 1:26 / genesis 3:22 / isaiah 6:8 / john 10:30 / deuteronomy 6:4 / revelation 6:16-17 - more than 1 Being is God john 1:1-14 Messiah (philippians 2:5-11) is the Lord God of the old covenant - hosea 13:4 english word god (a molten image) mistranslated from the hebrew word Elohiym a plural proper noun that should have been rendered in english as the Mighty Ones. acts 2:34-35 Both presently reside in Heaven waiting for us to almost exterminate ourselves through the end results of coming ww3 before the Father sends Messiah to intervene - matthew 24:22 / revelation 19:11-21 / revelation 11:18

Answer 5

The Word was with God. Someone who is “with” another person cannot be the same as that other person.

Later in the same chapter, John 1:14, John clearly shows that “the Word” is Jesus. (John 1:14)

Also consider what John further writes in chapter 1, verse 18: “No man has seen [Almighty] God at any time.” However, humans have seen Jesus, the Son of God.

John 1:1 should be understood. Jesus, the Word, is “a god” in the sense that he has a high position but is not the same as Almighty God.

Isaiah 9:6 describes Jesus as a Mighty God not Almighty God. That title, Almighty God, refers to the creator of the Universe, his father.

I hope this answers your question.

Answer 6

It depends on what translation you use. I know of 19 translations of Jn 1:1 that clearly state "the Word was God": KJV; NIV; Rotherham; Douay; Jerusalem Bible; American Standard Version; Revised Standard; Young's Literal Translation; The New Life Trestament; New King James Version; New Translation (Darby); New American Standard Bible; The New Testament in Basic English; The New Testament in Modern Speech (Weymouth); The Berkley Version; The New Testament in Modern English; The New Testament in Modern English (Phillips); Numeric English New Testament; The Message.

There is, further, the text of The Emphatic Diaglott. Although a JW earlier claimed support from Christadelphian Benjamin Wilson's Emphatic Diaglott, the text clearly says "and the Logos was God."

5 translations that emphasize the deity of Christ without using the exact phrase "the Word was God": An Expanded Translation (Wuest), The Amplified Bible, A Translation in the Language of The People (Williams), Living Bible, and LAMSA.

The New World Translation turns the Logos, or the Word, into a demi-god by mistranslating Westcott & Hort's scholarly text as "the Word was a god". The text of Westcott & Hort says "and God was the Word." The NWT also claimed support from Dana & Mantey's 'Manual Grammar' but had to retract this when Dr J R Mantey objected to this misrepresentation. Other Greek scholars who abhor the NWT rendition are: Dr Bruce M Metzger, Dr Samuel J Mikolaski; Dr Walter R Martin; Dr William Barclay; Dr F F Bruce; Dr Ernest C Colwell; Dr B F Westcott; Dr J J Griesbach and Dr J Johnson of California State University who is neither a Trinitarian nor a Christian.

Appallingly, the NWT publishers claimed for many years support from Johannes Greber's New Testament (copyright 1937) despite saying in 1956, "Very plainly the spirits in which ex-priest Greber believes helped him in his translation." Yet they tried to give the impression that it was not until 1980 that they discovered his demonic influence and stopped quoting this translation in support of their own NWT.

The JW aforementioned also claimed support from Dr Johannes Schneider. The Wt. Soc. partially quoted him to prove that "...when theologians confine themselvs to what the Bible, rather than later Church doctrines says, often the result is what this magazine has long been championing." In complete opposition to that claim, Dr Schneider SUPPORTS the RSV translation of Jn 1:1, which contradicts the NWT. I challenge the JW answerer to look up the references below to see how his leaders twist scholars' work via partial quotes taken out of context to make them appear to say things they do not. This scholastic dishonesty is disgusting and shows how desperate the Wt. Soc is to claim support from reputable sources. None of their quotations should be taken at face value but carefully checked out - difficult, as the Wt. Soc. rarely provides sufficient references to trace the original sources. Integrity and honesty must be proven on such issues of translation, however for this is God's word we are handling.

Answer 7

Jesus is the son of God for all those who said he wasn't and the Bible is not a fictional book everything in it is true and there are miricales to prove it go to this link: http://www.zeitun-eg.org/stmaridx.htm

The father (God), The Son( Jesus) and the Holy Spirit are all one not 3 but one! Just like how the sun is the ball of fire it self, and gives off light, and heat at the same time! It's the same thing!

By the way the picture is a true miracle. I bet now all of u r gonna say" ooooo it's a fake" believe wuteva u want but as proof ma mom's friend saw it and has a real picture of it and some muslims believe in Saint Mary because they saw the same mircale! but i dun really care wut u say about it! Jesus is real he came and will come again!

Answer 8

Yes, this verse certainly makes that claim. You can also find a reference to his divinity in Isaiah 9:6, a messianic prophecy

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Answer 9

Yes, because it it one God in three divine persons, The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.

Answer 10

yes, and also Rev. 19:13 Jesus is the word of God.
Three persons of the Godhead, one divine nature and that nature is the ONE GOD.
God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit

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