What is your understanding of John 1:1?

Question

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

Answer 1

Jesus is God

Answer 2

John 1:1, RS: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God [also KJ, JB, Dy, Kx, NAB].” NE reads “what God was, the Word was.” Mo says “the Logos was divine.” AT and Sd tell us “the Word was divine.” The interlinear rendering of ED is “a god was the Word.” NW reads “the Word was a god”; NTIV uses the same wording.

What is it that these translators are seeing in the Greek text that moves some of them to refrain from saying “the Word was God”? The definite article (the) appears before the first occurrence of the·os′ (God) but not before the second. The articular (when the article appears) construction of the noun points to an identity, a personality, whereas a singular anarthrous (without the article) predicate noun before the verb (as the sentence is constructed in Greek) points to a quality about someone. So the text is not saying that the Word (Jesus) was the same as the God with whom he was but, rather, that the Word was godlike, divine, a god. (See 1984 Reference edition of NW, p. 1579.)

What did the apostle John mean when he wrote John 1:1? Did he mean that Jesus is himself God or perhaps that Jesus is one God with the Father? In the same chapter, verse 18, John wrote: “No one [“no man,” KJ, Dy] has ever seen God; the only Son [“the only-begotten god,” NW], who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.” (RS) Had any human seen Jesus Christ, the Son? Of course! So, then, was John saying that Jesus was God? Obviously not. Toward the end of his Gospel, John summarized matters, saying: “These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, [not God, but] the Son of God.”—John 20:31, RS.

Answer 3

The Word has been debated by scholars- it seems that is could be translated as either 1) The message of Jesus or 2) Jesus and His message, or 3) Jesus and his message are one with God.

Keep in mind how old these texts are and how many translations have been made. Not to trivialize the holy texts, but a simple child's game of telephone is easily distorted from the first to the last message.
Also, anyone who works in an office knows how easily miscommunication can happen with anouncements, memos and emails.

Since there are so many interpretations, the important thing is what your understanding is and how you bring the Word to life in your own existence.

Answer 4

Both Jesus and God were co-existent before the foundation of the world and time as we understand it. They've been there all along -- no beginning or end, hard as that is for a finite human mind to grasp -- together. Give all of John a read in one sitting, if you can, to get the flow of the context. It's really great. It'll take about an hour, usually, (or maybe just a little more) and is an hour extremely well-spent. Think of anything else you'd be willing to spend an hour on (most movies take nearly two hours) then agree with yourself to give up one of those things once, and go have a good read. It's really fun to see how things fit together, rather than just focusing on bits and pieces like we usually do.

Answer 5

Without tackling the issues of the lack on an article before "theos" in "the word was god" and the fact that in Greek it's the othe way around ("god was the word'), since others have already done that very thoroughly, I see the passage as meaning that the Son of God existed from the beginning (as the Nicene Creed puts it, "created by his father before all worlds"), long before he was born as Jesus--that he "was and is and is to come."

Answer 6

The King James Bible rendition is the only one to follow here.

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In the beginning was the Word
In the beginning God said "Let there be light and there was light."

Sounds like Jesus is a Branch of God to me.

and the Word was with God.
(If God is the tree, then Jesus is the Branch on the tree)

and the Word was God.
(I have no problem with God being unlimited with many parts)
The Branch is a part of God and God.
Jesus is a part of God and God.
The Holy Spirit is a part of God and God.

The KJV Bible says that "God is Spirit and consuming fire."
So God had to make Jesus to dwell among us. If you are God and you want to dwell among your creation, then what better way than to be a man in human flesh that can dwell among His creation.

Jesus is God and God is Jesus.

Answer 7

The verse should go like this:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was divine.

Word means thought, promise, pronouncement , plan or instructions.

The verse doesnt say that Christ is God for Word and Christ are not directly intechangeable. Although the Word speaks about Christ but that WORD is not Christ himself.

Verse 14 doesnt also say that the word incarnates but the Word was made flesh or materialized. A plan, promise or anything abstract when materialized is described as "made flesh"

Answer 8

Jesus is the Word of God who became flesh and lived among us! He said if you`ve seen me you`ve seem my Father! Jesus is the physical manifestation of God
You have God the Father, the Creator of everything and the source, you have God the Son, Jesus, The Word and the Physical manifestation who came to save us from our sins, and you have God the Holy Spirit, the power by which God does everything he does! He SPOKE creation into existence by the POWER of his Holy Spirit! And Every miracle Jesus performed, he did by the same power! Three different and unique persons working in perfect harmony all intricate parts of the same God!

Answer 9

I see everyone else's understanding of it, that basically it means Jesus as the Word.

But I see it different.

I think in this day and age we have forgotten the power of the spoken word. With a word, God created. We do the same. We create or destroy with our words, everyone knows this.

The ancients understood this, they wouldn't even speak God's name without ritually cleansing themselves first so as not to disrespect it. Like us, they had "high" words and "low" words. In today's world we'd say "Ma'am" and "thank you" to someone we wish to respect, and "yo dude" to a familiar friend. See the difference?

My point is that it says Word, so Word is how I understand it. Not just a word, but "the Word" ... the ultimate Word.

Answer 10

That Jesus was sitting on the right hand of his Father from the beginning. Jesus was sent to earth by his Father to send us a message.

So basically Jesus is God's messenger. When Jesus was here on earth, he wasn't speaking of his own words, but the words of his Father in Heaven.

Well from what I understand, I say that Jesus is God because, God's word lives within Jesus. And if you know Jesus you know God, because Jesus followed in his Father's footsteps. And the way Jesus act, that would be the way his Father in heaven would act.

Answer 11

meaning: In the beginning of all creation, the Word was already in existence. The Word was intimately with God. And the Word was as to His essence, fully God.



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