On John 1:1 [according to rules of logic] — John R. Beard

“Some try to defend post-biblical creeds by appealing to John 1:1. But they read this passage with their minds already made up that the Son of God was an uncreated eternal Second Person in the Godhead. They then make the huge assumption that the “word” means the Son before his birth. But the text tells us that “God’s word,” not His Son, existed from the beginning. Anyone familiar with Jewish ways of thinking recognizes here a strong parallel with Wisdom which is figuratively presented as being “with God” from the beginning (Prov. 8). There, wisdom is personified (i.e., “She” speaks as though she was a person). She says “I was always with Him [God].” Thus the word or wisdom of God was “with God” (John 1:1) and was itself God, that is to say fully expressive of God. Wisdom says in Proverbs, “I am understanding.” She is the fullest expression of the mind of God. The word “is” God, not as a one-to-one identity, because the word is also “with God,” but as fully expressive of God. The word is God in His self-revelation.” — 21st Century Reformation, https://21stcr.org/commentaries/john-1-articles/who-is-the-one-god-in-john-1/

Source: Focus on the Kingdom, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwYLm182jE4, Excerpts from https://www.amazon.com/Historical-Artistic-Illustrations-Trinity-Progress/dp/1166972984

THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine. — John 1:1 – James Moffatt
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