My Interpretation of John 1 (and the Word)

Here is my interpretation:

>1 In the beginning was the Word,

The Word is Christ and existed in the beginning.

>and the Word was with God,

Christ was with the Father.

>and the Word was God.

Christ is part of the Godhead. He is one with the Father.

>2 The same was in the beginning with God.

Same.

>3 All things were made by him;

He is also the father. He created all temporal things under the direction of God the Father. Thus Christ (the Son) is the Father of all temporal things. But God the Father organized everything spiritually, including the Son making Him the Father of the Son.

>and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Again. God the Father made all things through his Son, Jesus Christ.

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A description by Mathetes in his epistle of Christ's role in the creation.

For, as I said, this was no mere earthly invention which was delivered to them, nor is it a mere human system of opinion, which they judge it right to preserve so carefully, nor has a dispensation of mere human mysteries been committed to them, but truly God Himself, who is almighty, the Creator of all things, and invisible, has sent from heaven, and placed among men, [Him who is] the truth, and the holy and incomprehensible Word, and has firmly established Him in their hearts. He did not, as one might have imagined, send to men any servant, or angel, or ruler, or any one of those who bear sway over earthly things, or one of those to whom the government of things in the heavens has been entrusted, but the very Creator and Fashioner of all things — by whom He made the heavens — by whom he enclosed the sea within its proper bounds — whose ordinances " all the stars IJ faithfully observe — from whom the sun M has received the measure of his daily course to be observedI5—whom the moon obeys, being commanded to shine in the night, and whom the stars also obey, following the moon in her course ; by whom all things have been arranged, and placed within their proper limits, and to whom all are subject — the heavens and the things that are therein, the earth and the things that are therein, the sea and the things that are therein — fire, air, and the abyss — the things which are in the heights, the things which are in the depths, and the things which lie between.

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