125) PART 2: A Non-Genesis-Creation Interpretation of John 1:3-4 from One God Report

125) PART 2: A Non-Genesis-Creation Interpretation of John 1:3-4

18 minutes Posted Nov 9, 2024 at 7:53 pm.

is translated as "all happened through him, and without him nothing happened. That which happened (came to be) in him was life, and the life was the light of men"?

-4 to be a statement about the involvement of the Logos of John 1:1 in the Genesis creation of the physical universe. The Logos of John 1:1 is taken to be a pre-incarnate divine person or being distinct from the God of John 1:1b, either one member of a co-equal “godhead” (Trinitarianism), or a subordinate god/angel (Arianism) who eventually became incarnated as Jesus.

-4 in a Genesis creation context, but maintain that the Logos of John 1:1 is not a literal person, only a personification of God’s Wisdom or Plan involved in the Genesis creation.

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PART 2

What if John

Compare the Literal Standard Version and Young's Literal Translation.

Would you think John 1 was describing the Genesis creation? Probably not.

Almost all deity-of-Christ and Arian readers of the Bible understand John

Some Biblical Unitarians also interpret John

In contrast, this presentation interprets the Prologue of John, focusing on verses 3-4, as introducing a new beginning in the Gospel of Jesus of Nazareth, and not directly describing the Genesis creation of the physical universe.

For full text, see here:

https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-non-genesis-creation-interpretation.html

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