WHO WAS THE WORD
IN JOHN 1:1?
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. (JN 1:1,
New American Bible)
Q1: What and who was the Word?
A1: The
Word was a life-giving Spirit who coexisted with God in heaven in eternity
(1COR 15:45, 47). The Word was none
other than Christ, the Anointed of God (PS 2:2; JN 4:25-26). After His prophesied incarnation was
fulfilled (ISA 7:14, 9:5; MT 1:21-23), Christ was given the human name JESUS
(MT 1:21, 25; LK 1:31, 2:21), the Name that is above every name of which
absolutely all must worship (PHIL 2:9-10; HEB 1:6). Therefore, the destructive heresies (2PT 2:1)
that the Word was just a plan, a scheme, or what have you, which were being
peddled around by the false teachers today, are excrements that must be flushed
in the toilet bowl right away.
Q2: What is the proof of Christ being the Word?
A2: The
“Word” is short for the “Word of God.”
The Word of God has many names like, "Faithful and True,"
"King of kings and Lord of lords," and even an undisclosed name (REV
19:11-16). The Faithful and True is the
source of God's creation (REV 3:14), who is none other than Christ (JN 1:3;
ACTS 3:15; Col 1:15-17). The King of
kings and Lord of lords is the Lamb (RV 17:14), who is none other than Christ
(JN 1:29, 36). The prophet Isaiah was
the first recorded in the Scriptures to name the LORD God as the Faithful and
True (ISA 25:1). The LORD God referred
to by Isaiah is none other than Christ - the Alpha and the Omega who is coming
soon (RV 1:8, 22:20).
Now
that we’d proven that the Word was none other than Christ, we’ll substitute the
said God’s Name in John 1:1, thus, we have:
In
the beginning was Christ, and Christ was with God, and Christ was God.
Actually,
there are at least two Bible Translations that are succinct enough to name
Christ as indeed the Word, and here they are:
In the beginning [before all time] was the Word
(Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. (Amplified Bible)
BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE existed, there was Christ, with
God. He has always been alive and is
Himself God. (The Living Bible, Tyndale)
An
ambiguous rendition of the same verse above was that of the Lamsa Translation
which implies God (the Father) was the Word and not Christ (the Son):
THE WORD was in the beginning, and that very Word
was with God, and God was that Word.
The
mistranslation of John 1:1 by Dr. George Lamsa was made conspicuous with just
13 verses forward in his own bible version.
From John 1:1, God the Father (Word) turned out to be the first-born of
the Father in this verse below:
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and
we saw his glory, a glory like that of the first-born of the Father, full of
grace and truth. (JN 1:14)
Also
in John 1:18, Dr. Lamsa sounded it like God the Father (Word/first-born) is in
the bosom of his Father:
No man has ever seen God; but the first-born of
God, who is in the bosom of his Father, he has declared him. (JN 1:18)
In
fairness to Dr. Lamsa, he may be very zealous in attributing the Word to the
Father, but his fervor became undone in his mistranslation of ACTS 20:28. In JN 1:1, Dr. Lamsa said, “and God was that
Word” and in JN 1:14, he said, “the Word became flesh.” The implication of Dr. Lamsa was very clear:
God became flesh. Dr. Lamsa could not be
more divinely inspired in positively proclaiming the truth of God which jibes
perfectly with 1TM 3:16, KJV, which says: God was manifest in the flesh. But alas, Dr. Lamsa’s passion for God wafted
“like a morning cloud or like the dew that early passes away, like chaff
storm-driven from the threshing floor or like smoke out of the window” when he
made a boo-boo in mistranslating Acts 20:28 in this wise:
Take heed therefore to yourselves and to all the
flock over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, to feed the
church of Christ which he has purchased with his blood. (ACTS 20:28)
In all
his earlier translations cited above, Dr. Lamsa was consistently affirming God
was the Word, and that the Word (God) became flesh. Ergo, he should be the most viable bible
translator who would have steadfastly stuck to his guns that It was God who
shed his blood to purchase his church.
But no, he contradicted himself instead.
All the other Bible Translations of ACTS 20:28 either say church of God
or church of the Lord. Only the Lamsa
Translation says church of Christ.
Actually,
God and Christ are interchangeable as the Father and Christ are one (JN
10:30). Unfortunately, there are certain
perverted people and churches that capitalizes on the title “church of Christ”
who trade on the word of God to overstuff their wallets and coffers (2COR
2:17). The sadder reality is that these
wicked people and churches don’t even believe in the Divinity of Christ and
won’t interchange God and Christ come hell or high water. They just flaunt the Holy Name of God for
their own greed that is idolatry (COL 3:5).
For mocking the Name of God by attributing it to a mere man, a false
Christ (2COR 11:4), they are also guilty of violating the commandment of God
that says:
You shall not take the name of the LORD, your God,
in vain. For the LORD will not leave
unpunished him who takes his name in vain.
(DEUT 5:11)
The
worst translation of John 1:1 and 1:18 was provided by the New World
Translation of the Holy Scriptures, a self-serving, tailor-made, homemade bible
of the Jehovah’s Witnesses which made the Word (Christ) a mere god – a fake
God, ie, an idol (1JN 5:21). This is
primarily due to their adamant denial of the Divinity of Christ, whom they
treat as a no-no God and coldly called “one”:
In [the] beginning the Word was, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was a god. This
one was in [the] beginning with God. (JN
1:1-2)
No man has seen God at any time; the only‐begotten god who is in the bosom [position] with
the Father is the one that has explained him.
(JN 1:18)
I just
can’t help wondering whether Jehovah’s Witnesses ever bent their knees to
worship their “god” aka “one” in obedience to this word of God:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bend,
of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth. (PHIL 2:10)
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OH MY GOD OUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME, I pray to You, please save us all Your
children from these ravenous wolves in our midst today especially in our poor
country, the Philippines (MT 7:15). I
beseech You in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ Your Son, in unity of the Holy
Spirit, and the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Amen.
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