In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1
The false cults hate this verse. The JWs for example so despise it that they have rewritten the last part to read ‘the word was a god’, although the indefinite article ‘a’ doesn’t exist in the original Greek. In fact, the original Greek has this portion ‘God was the Word’, making the JW’s rendering pure nonsense. This verse clearly declares that Jesus Christ is God, and that is a truth that those cults deny. But we joyfully accept it, so thankful that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14).
Remember how Moses encountered God in the burning bush of Exodus 3, and God identified Himself to Moses as ‘I Am’. The Lord Jesus used the same term to identify Himself to the Pharisees: ‘Verily, verily I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am’ – John 8:58. This verse is an excellent response to those doubters who claim that Jesus never claimed to be God. Paul makes the same point in Philippians 2:6 – ‘Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God’. There are many similar declarations in the Scriptures to confirm the deity of Jesus Christ.
Our text identifies the Lord Jesus as the Word of God. We find Him given the same Name in Revelation 19:13 – ‘And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His Name is called The Word of God’. But we also refer to our Bible as the Word of God; is there some confusion here? Not at all! From cover to cover – Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22-21 – the Bible is about the Lord Jesus, as He Himself told the travellers to Emmaus. Hebrews 1:3 reminds us that Jesus Christ is the brightness of the Father’s glory and the express image of the Father’s Person. So both the Son and the Book are the Word of God. -Jim MacIntosh
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