john 1:1

Here is a great video on understanding the logos in John 1:1. I have copied the slides here for easier reference.

One of the main problems in understanding John 1:1-3 comes when people confuse grammatical gender with biological gender. In other words, the Greek logos is a grammatically masculine noun, but this doesn’t mean that God’s word is an actual person, a human male no less! That “the word” should...

The main problem is to confuse grammatical gender with biological or sexual gender. In other words, just because the Greek logos is a masculine noun doesn’t mean God’s word is an actual Person, a human male no less! That “the word" should not be capitalized and therefore confused with a person...

Show Notes: This episode explores how the "Word of God" (Aramaic: "memra") was used to explain the activity of the God of Israel in the Jewish Targum Onkelos. After organizing the various ways that Onkelos understands and uses the "memra" of God in the Torah, we look at John 1:1-18 to see if our...

“The Word” in the Prologue to John’s Gospel In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by it, and without it nothing was made. In it was life… John 1:1-3 Tyndale’s New Testament of 1534 (modern...

John 1 in 50+ English Translations The opening verses of the Gospel of John have proven to be, unfortunately, a veritable battleground and storm center of theological argument. Translators have often edited John to make him fit much later systems of theology. John had never heard of the...

11 “The Word” in the Prologue to John’s Gospel In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by it, and without it nothing was made. In it was life… John 1:1-3 Tyndale’s New Testament of 1534 (modern spelling)...

For the Old Testament writers “the word of God” is the self-expression of God or a quality of God. So when John 1:1 says that “the word was with God” it doesn’t mean that a person was with God. In the Old Testament qualities of God, things belonging to God are said to be “with Him” — His...

This is a classic!

Texts Misconstrued to Imply That Jesus Is Part of a Trinity In Chapter 5 we examined the many translation issues in the New Testament showing that with correct translation such verses do not show Jesus as being the Almighty God. Briefly, these passages were: 1 John 5:7: The forged and...

Select Language▼ WHO IS JESUS? DO THE CREEDS TELL US THE TRUTH ABOUT HIM? by Anthony Buzzard Source:https://focusonthekingdom.org/articles_/jesus.htm Dear Fellow Truth-Seekers, It is a well-documented fact that many of the church's "major doctrines" were not instituted until well after New...