Following is part of my post to NBD, have a look so you can see how I see it, if there is something you don't understand or need explaining, just tell me.
Explain with verses why you think it can't flow if that be the case.
No I don't say you have to take my word on anything, however the verses are not mine, but at the end of the day, it is IMO, another person has to see it for themselves, in other words, let God and his word, Jesus as well find you or the truth.
Remember, God draws us with his word.
One of my driving forces and key drivers was - We have all these differing Christian faiths, God is Not divided, Hence,,,, this division cause is NOT of God.
So my mission was - Where has the opposition crept IN and it is "appearing" right back where it began (ours & us) AND the Key, link, support for this is JOHN'S first 18 verses, you might say, close to or smack in the middle of our Bibles.
The first 13 verses of John are all in reference to The Almighty God and Father OF Jesus, until verse 1:14.
John was sent to make the way clear for God who was about to send his Son, they way in which God had always intended to save, before the foundation of the world.
The mystery hidden IN God, now revealed.
John's first 13 verses are recapping what ALREADY was as in OT times, preparation for God's words of eternal life coming into the world as never before to open the Door back up to God for ALL, so he can be ALL IN ALL.
This is all summed up in the meaning of The Word.
THE WORD = THE Almighty God and Father, The Father of Lights, The Most High.
The term, The Word is a term, title so to speak which represents ALL that God is, His inner as in thoughts and plans which then he expressed out, Spirit/Breath to His Word - As a Light for man for life = The Word of life, The Words of eternal life WHICH Jesus brought into the world when God's plan and the times were fulfilled, to FINISH the Almighty God and Fathers Works.
Every single passage, life etc is hinged, tie into this - and summed up as THE WORD.
1 Peter 1:23 - Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. It, his word IS Spirit, living and active.
John 17:8 For I have given them the words which thou gavest me...............
John 6:63 - Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life = Fathers!
John 5:26 - For as the Father (Almighty God) hath life in himself (John 1:4) so hath HE GIVEN to the Son TWO HAVE life in himself = "This life" is in the Fathers WORD which he Gave Jesus, for Jesus received the Spirit of God Almighty without measure which IS ALSO Spirit, hence Jesus received these Life-giving Words, without measure as well.
2 Cor 2:11 - For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
The Spirit of our Almighty God The Father, The Holy Spirit - Thinks, Thoughts, Plans, the Hidden plan within as in - Jesus slain before the foundation of the world Rev 13:8, the beginning of the creation of God Rev 3:14 and the firstborn of creation in mind and thoughts of God, Col 1:15.
His Spirit, inner Thought, to Breath to Word = Spirit = ALL starting out IN Him and With Him and IS Him.
In the Beginning was the Thought, Breath, Word/Spirit within, it,,,,The Thought, Breath, Word/Spirit was with Almighty God and God (This same God) was The Thought, Breath, Word/Spirit.
("and the Word was God" is not how it's written in the Greek, that's just a little twist to set the mind of the reader up).
John 1:2 - The same Thought, Breath, Word/Spirit was in the beginning with God = His plan.
These two verses are to show what was and how it was and WHO and now that is established, identified, the two, Word and God are not mentioned separately as now the two are combined as ONE which God is and now written as HIM, from here on.
1:3 - All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Psa 33:6 - By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Neh 9:6 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
The Thought, Breath, Word/Spirit moved over the waters and God said - Let there be light.
John 1:4 - In Him (word/Spirit) is life and that life is the light of men.
Psa 119:105 - Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
1 John 1:5 - 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.
Heb 1:1-2 - God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2. Hath in these last days (and not before) spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
True wording of 1:2 as per the Greek - in last days these, has spoken to us IN whom ALSO he (God) made the worlds.
IN = 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.
John 12:46 - I am come "a" light into the world..................... and this is only when he received the Spirit/Word at his Baptism as God's Word within Jesus is the Light and source, power, which Jesus was showing, he was the light shining thereof of The Father of Lights.(James 1:17)
1:14 - Greek - The Word flesh became.....................Emmanuel God with us IN Jesus, the Tent, Tabernacle, Temple, not built with hands. Forerunner;
John 14:10 above and at least 3 other verses just in John alone, makes it VERY clear what John 1:14 means and represents.
The Glory seen at 1:14 is for Both, God with us IN the flesh of His Son and he does likewise for people, but less measure.
In OT times, God would come to them in the cloud, Tent, Tabernacle.
Reason for all this;
John 17:21 - That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Sent me meaning - John 17:18 - As thou hath sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
Baptism timing for Jesus and for them, after Jesus had given them the eternal words of life OF the Fathers.
1 Cor 6:16 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God,and ye are not your own?
2 Cor 6:16 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Note = The same writer inter changes the The Almighty God with The Spirit = BECAUSE "they" are one in the same and ONE singular identity and there is but ONE Spirit as God is ONE as in singular.
One represents, stands for UNITY in the Bible, God’s Key plan, so He can be ALL IN ALL.
Let there be light and no darkness at all.
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