10/06/2026
In the beginning – Spirit, breath, speech, verbal commands of God
John 1:1-5 — “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. v2 The same was in the beginning with God. v3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. v4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. v5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
This is solely speaking of God, as in the Father. The Father used the prophets and His people still did not know Him and turned to idols. He used John. He then had to use His own Son. The Son came to reveal the Father, the Son did not come to reveal the Son. The Father is the light because Scripture tells us “God is light.” (1 John 1:5).
Below is shown uncapitalized (“w” in “word”) which is in its proper usage, lower case lettering. If you were to capitalize the “w” in “word,” it should only be capitalized if you were to use it as you would to capitalize the “s” in “Spirit” when denoting the “Spirit of God.” But the translators have not done that honestly.
John 1:1 - In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. (the way it should have been published)
This changes the narrative rather quickly with the uncapitalization. This “In the beginning” phrase in Greek ties into the action it does in Genesis 1:1-2 in the Old Testament and throughout the first two chapters of Genesis when it states during creation that “God said” or “God called.”
“God said,” “God called,” In Genesis 1 and 2 is the action of God’s mind, will and purpose when He gave the verbal speech and commands from His breath in order to do the creating.
The identification of “the word” in John 1:1 as Jesus was not always an automatic or obvious interpretation for everyone. It is something that grew over time. In the second century AD, Justin Martyr explicitly identified Jesus as the “logos of God,” co-eternal with the Father. This is correct in that Christ existed sometime in eternity with the Father and had a beginning. Irenaus emphasized that Jesus as the “word made flesh” revealed the unseen God which is true. Tertullian took it a step further and now developed the theology that the “logos” was a person of the Trinity. This last statement we would disagree on.
As time went on and theology developed, the idea that Jesus was not just sent by the “word of God” but was God’s word in personal form expanded. And then in 325 AD, you have the Council of Nicaea and the Nicene creed became formalized. The transition from logos as a verbal command/breath started with Scripture but transitioned to logos as Jesus evolved into what we have today through man’s theology.
The word “word” is translated from the Greek word “logos #3056 λόγος and is not inherently a personal being. In Hebrew thought, the “word of God” was not a second person but God’s active, creative will. The earliest of Jews converted into Christians at the time of Christ and the few years to follow would have believed the same when you compare Genesis 1 “And God said….” to Psalm 33:6 “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made.”
By taking a closer look at all of this, we are taking the text serious. Being honest about what it says or might not be saying and looking at its historical context both from a cultural standpoint and literary basis. We are thoughtfully examining this from a point of humility and faithful examination. Instead of using the “word” to be Jesus like from the minds and history of Trinitarians, consider this instead. It is the verbal speech, commands, breath of God, His thought, reasoning in His plan and purpose for the world that was initiated from His mind to start things.
In the Bible the word logos appears a few hundred times and in this, it is capitalized very few times. It is up to the translator of that Bible. However zealous translators have capitalized the “w” in “word” and turned it into a personage, making it Jesus to fit into their trinitarian thought process. It’s a wonder they didn’t insert another spirit being into this verse somehow as well for their trinity ideology and theology. In both ancient Greek literature and Scripture, logos falls into two basic categories. One is dealing with the mind and the other is an expression of reasoning such as a verbal word, command, speech or saying.
It isn’t until John 1:14 that the outward expression of God’s reasoning, speech, wisdom, purpose and plan becomes the pre-incarnate Son of God NOW AS Christ in human form as “the word” when it states, “and the word was made flesh.” We don’t hold to using John 1:1 to preach Christ divinity as a trinitarian would. That is not needed. We hold to Christ’s divinity because he is directly the begotten Son of God and has the same nature as God because of this special Son-ship. Jesus has given the direct testimony many times found in John 6:38, 8:42, 16:27-28, 17:8 about coming out of or coming forth from God. And about his begotteness as recorded by John in John 1:14, 18, 3:16, 18, 1 John 4:9.
In the beginning was the Spirit (breath, verbal speech and commands) of God, and this was with God and it was God.
Genesis 1:1-2 – In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. v2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
We shall continue….
From the KJV: John 1:2 - The same was in the beginning with God. v3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. v4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. v5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
If you believe the “word” is Jesus, then it sets you up to leaving the Father totally out of the inspiration of the verses to follow verse 1. Stay with us here as we walk through this in detail.
The King James Bible version came out in 1611 and received most of its inspiration of the New Testament from William Tyndale’s work that was published in 1526, 85 years earlier.
It took seven years and 47 scholars who were involved in the making of the KJV drawing extensively from Tyndale’s work along with other translations that descended from his work. Tyndale was the first to translate the Greek to English. It would cost him his life at the hands of the Catholics who were trying to keep control of the gospel.
The example below is in ‘Old English’ as that is the way they spoke and wrote. William Tyndale writes the following to start out John 1:
John 1:1: “In the beginnynge was the worde and the worde was with God: and the worde was God.”
(In the beginning was the word and the word was with God: and the word was God.)
John 1:2: “The same was in the beginnynge with God.”
(The same was in the beginning with God.)
John 1:3: “All thinges were made by it and with out it was made nothinge that was made.”
(“All things were made by IT and with out IT was made nothing that was made.”)
John 1:4: “In it was lyfe and the lyfe was ye lyght of men.
(In IT was life and the life was the light of men.)
William Tyndale points out the “worde” as an “it” and this would fit with the ideology of this being the verbal speech commands, verbalization, expression of thought. It is NOT the personage of another being. Tyndale doesn’t give it personhood. It might be strange to some people to see how Old English spelled certain words a number of centuries ago.
In trinitarian land, they say “He” as in Jesus was in the beginning with God. While that is true, that is not what the original Scripture intended to state unless you were to make the “word” into a person instead of the verbal speech, commands and breath of God. Trinitarians massaged John 1:1 with a capital W in the "word" and made it into a Logos—Jesus in the commentaries.
“The doctrines of the Logos [i.e., the “Word,” a designation for Christ in John 1] and the Trinity received their shape from Greek Fathers, who ... were much influenced, directly or indirectly, by the Platonic philosophy ... That errors and corruptions crept into the Church from this source cannot be denied.” — (The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Samuel Macauley Jackson, editor, 1911, Vol. 9, p. 91)
“Nowhere either in the Bible or in the extra-canonical literature of the Jews is the word of God a personal agent or on the way to become such.” – James Dunn, “Logos in Pre-Christian Thought”, Christology in the Making, Second Edition, 1996.
And we see from a later Bible version in recent times that has it right, from the Revised English Version:
“John1: v1 In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and what God was the word was. v2 This word was in the beginning with God. v3 Everything came to be through it, and apart from it nothing came to be that has come to be. v4 In it was life, and that life was the light of humankind. v5 And the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness did not overcome it.”
We know from the Bible that God is Spirit. Looking at verse 1, we can see that what God was (spirit), the word was as well. It is lacking personhood. And you will see in the passages that follow, it is referred to as an “IT” and not a “he.”
The Father is the source of all things. In Him, all life is sustained. In this life is the light of men. But they did not comprehend it. They were in darkness. So, a man named John, also known as the Baptist, was used by God to bear witness of the Light who is the Father. That all men through John might believe. John was sent to bear witness of this Light. Even thou the Father was the Creator, and the world was made by Him, the world did not know Him. But those that would know him became sons of God.
1 John 1:5-7 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. v6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: v7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
God is the Light, not Jesus. Although Jesus did say in John 8:12 “I am the light of the world,” he spoke the words that his Father gave him. Think of it this way. God is the light, and Jesus is the light bulb that the light shines through. The Father was abiding in Christ doing the works. Jesus came to reveal the Father. He did not come to reveal himself.
John 14:10 - Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
The God that Jesus proclaimed (which was the original word), was God the Father. The Light which shined into the darkness, was the Father as expressed through the word made flesh. The True Light coming into the world was the Father who Jesus declared.
Just prior to Jesus, John the Baptist prepared the way for the God of Israel. We see that as recorded in the book of Luke.
Luke 1:16-17 - And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. v17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
John was trying to get the children of the darkness to see the Light.
Luke 1:76 - And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
Would these verses be referring to “our God” as in “the Lord our God the Lord is one? Wouldn’t that be the God of Jesus Christ? Jesus himself came in the name of God, in the name of the Father.
Acts 2:22 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
John was preparing the way for the God of Israel, the Father of Jesus. Because the God of Israel was about to do miracles, wonders and signs through Jesus as recorded in Acts 2. Trinitarians and even non-Trinitarian converts grasp these next verses and even the ones before it as Jesus. But that is just not so.
John 1:6 – There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. v7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. v8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. v9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. v10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. v11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. v12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: v13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
The True Light, God the Father, was in the world and the world did not know Him. (1 John 3:1 - “….because it knew him not.”) It’s astonishing because here we have the Creator of the world and His chosen people didn’t know Him. All they knew were laws. To them, God was an impersonal being. God wasn’t physically on foot on the earth, but through His Spirit He was looking to abide with His people.
He came to His own, His own possession, the people of Israel, the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And his own, especially the religious leaders, they did not receive Him (the Father). To those who did receive Him, He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.
There is one Creator unless you allow the Trinitarian translators to corrupt your mind. Where is the weight of evidence? Not by taking Ephesians 3:9 in the King James Bible version vs twenty-something other translations and the original Greek that say otherwise. The weight of evidence states that God created all things, as in by himself, period! And the weight of evidence is in over fifty separate Scriptures that points us to the Father as the Creator.
And you will see from the following verses, creation was done in a way that might be different than what we were told from the church pulpits.
Psalm 33:6 – “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.”
Isaiah 44:24-25 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, v25 I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Isaiah 45:12, 18 - I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. v18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Isaiah 55:11 – “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” The power of God’s word can be sent and returns to God, fulfilling what He planned or expressed in its purpose.
Even Jesus states in Mark 13:19 – For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of creation, which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
The world did not know the God of Israel and that is why he was working through the prophets. And then when that didn’t work, God would have to send His own Son and work through him. I repeat, the world did not know the Father! Even His own within the Kingdoms of Judah or Israel systems did not receive him. And even today, the majority of so-called Christians and Jews don’t know the Father. And most that claim to follow Christ follow a different gospel.
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Genesis 1:1-2 – In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. v2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Genesis 1:5 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:6 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:8 - And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:9 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Genesis 1:10 – And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:14 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis 1:20 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis 1:24 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Genesis 1:26 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:28 - And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:29 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
