John 1:1 | Is The Word (Logos) Referring To An Eternal Son Who Was With The Father In The Beginning?

Описание: A proper understanding of John 1:1 is critical for understanding the distinctions between Father and Son that we read about elsewhere in John and throughout the New Testament. The question arises in people's minds when reading John 1:1 if whether or not the Son existed as an eternal Person with the Person of the Father in eternity past? Passages such as John 17:5; Colossians 1:16; and Proverbs 8:21-30 cause many to believe that the "Son" existed in eternity past and, therefore, the "Son" cannot refer solely to the incarnation.

How do we reconcile these Scriptures with the foundational truths about God that we've already learned from God's Word in this video series so far? We need to disconnect certain dots that we've mistakenly connected, while connecting others that we have neglected to connect so that we rightly divide the word of truth and arrive at a biblical conclusion.

Genesis 1:1-3 reveals how Yahweh God spoke the world into existence. Hebrews 11:3 says that the worlds were framed by the word of God. Psalm 33:6;11 says that the word of Yahweh made the heavens and that His counsel (His plan) will stand (remains forever). In Isaiah 44:24, Yahweh God says "I created everything alone and by myself." Trinitarians argue that in Genesis 1:26 when God said "Let us make man in our image" that it is referring to Him being multiple persons who did everything. Isaiah 44:24 says Yahweh did everything alone and by Himself. Genesis 1:26 was the singular Person of Yahweh counselling with His own will in the presence of His angels. That is not a proof text for the Trinity doctrine!

Trinitarians turns to Colossians 1:16 to teach that an eternal Son created all things. However, the Son of God didn't exist when the worlds were created according to the Old Testament. How then are we to understand Colossians 1:16? God created all things by and through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, with His foreordained plan in mind without the Son literally existing as a human being or as a different eternal person next to the Father at that time. We can learn this by simply turning to Hebrews 1:1-2 and Ephesians 3:9 to see that Yahweh God (the Father) made the worlds by/through the Son. He created all things through Jesus Christ. So the subject of creation is the Father. An eternal Son did not exist next to the Father from eternity past. Yahweh God had a mystery (plan) in the beginning that was hidden or concealed in Him (Ephesians 3:9). He created all things through Jesus Christ who is the wisdom of God ordained before the world as in 1 Corinthians 2:7-8. So Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God revealed. God's love/heart manifested.

1 Peter 1:19-20 helps us to see how the man, Jesus Christ, was foreordained (foreknown/known ahead of time) in the plan/will/mind of God before the foundation of the world but was actually manifest in the first century. Yahweh God was manifest in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16). The Word (Logos) that was with Yahweh God and was Yahweh God became flesh! Revelation 13:8 refers to Jesus Christ, the Son of God as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. But Jesus Christ was not actually crucified before the foundation of the world except for in the plan/will/mind of God. Jesus Christ wasn't actually slain until after the incarnation when Yahweh God was manifest in the flesh and as the man Jesus Christ was crucified in time, not in eternity past.

Once we understand the biblical language about God's foreordained plan we can then better understand the Word (Logos) of John 1:1 and how it was with Yahweh God and how it was Yahweh God.