This argument was used in the 70’s by people that converted to “Born again Christian’s”
Reborn to make assertions that somehow by doing this, they could themselves become the light and the way to salvation. God like, since they mistakenly believe that Jesus is the True God spoken in the bible.
Ignorance that has been filtered thru misconception on how one reads the bible.
People continue to think, by taking away or changing a syllable will somehow change the entire understanding of what the bible expresses, or it's intent.
I myself had the opportunity to discuss this with an active member from the Born again sect. A simple question that I posed could not be answered if indeed they felt Christ was God.
MY question was: If you really believe Jesus is God, Then when he was being sacrificed or crucified, then to whom was he speaking to in Matthew 27:46, when he looked into the heavens, and Said” my God my God why have you forsaken me”
If he is God or as you people place him here in this forum, A GOD, then he would not have had a need to speak out and just do what he came to do, to become the sacrificial lamb for all mankind. Hay!!!
But wait, he wouldn’t have to have done that either.
The interpretation of the Bible from the old codex of many languages that were and in some instances still are, are no perfect. If a religion needs to be as close to the correct meanings, then they strive to learn the correct meaning. Theology as in science is finding the answer, not by debate but by actions.
Something this forum lacks. Knowledge.
With this, then you understand what John meant in 1:1, he drew parallels to the phrase “in the beginning” referring to Jesus being the first born of our heavenly father, and creation by our father in heaven, and how that contrast would be intertwined from the old testament to the new so it could be fully understood by the generations to come.
So the ideal of the Westcott and Hort Greek text or even the Textus Receptus is convoluted to the distortions of the video.
Keeps in mind however you view the bible, there is always someone attempting to disprove it, and that goes within religion. This is what some people say about Westcott:
Westcott, Hermes & the Occult
While advocates of the King James Only position have hurled a myriad of accusations at Brooke Foss Westcott, none is perhaps more serious in nature than the assertion that he was a practitioner of the occult. The first bit of evidence produced by Gail Riplinger in support of this thesis is his membership in a student association at Cambridge University named the Hermes Club
Darby Bible Translation
In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God.
English
Revised Version
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Webster's
Bible Translation
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Weymouth
New Testament
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Young's
Literal Translation
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;
New International Version
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
New Living
Translation
In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word
was God.
English
Standard Version
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
New
American Standard Bible
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
King James
Bible
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Holman
Christian Standard Bible
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Proverbs 8:23
I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be.
Luke 24:53
and they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.
John 1:2
He was with God in the beginning.
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,
the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and
truth.
John 8:58
"Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was
born, I am!"
Matthew Henry's Concise
Commentary “ Born again Christian”
1:1-5 The plainest reason why the Son of God is called the Word, seems to be,
that as our words explain our minds to others, so was the Son of God sent in
order to reveal his Father's mind to the world. What
the evangelist says of Christ proves that he is God.
Different interpretations or thoughts.
Gill's Exposition of
the Entire Bible
In the beginning was the word, That this is said not of the written word, but
of the essential word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, is clear, from all that is
said from hence, to John 1:14
as that this word was in the beginning, was with God, and is God; from the
creation of all things being ascribed to him, and his being said to be the life
and light of men; from his coming into the world, and usage in it; from his
bestowing the privilege of adoption on believers; and from his incarnation; and
also there is a particular application of all this to Christ
Not to give us any abstract information about certain mysterious distinctions in the Godhead, but solely to let the reader know who it was that in the fullness of time "was made flesh." After each verse, then, the reader must say, "It was He who is thus, and thus, and thus described, who was made flesh."Joh 1:1-5 The Divinity of Christ.
John 1:1. Ἐν ἀρχῇ] John makes the beginning of his Gospel parallel with that of Genesis;[61] but he rises above the historical conception of בְּרֵאשִׁית, which (Genesis 1:1) includes the beginning of time itself, to the absolute conception of anteriority to time: the creation is something subsequent,
HASTING’S
Great Texts of the Bible
The Word
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God.—John
1:1.
1. The text seems speculative and hard to understand. But St. John wrote the
Fourth Gospel with a practical aim, and in language which he meant to be
intelligible. What his aim was he states in the end of the twentieth chapter—the
chapter with which his Gospel originally ended (he himself seems to have added
the twenty-first at a later time). He says: “These are written, (1) that ye may
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and (2) that believing ye may
have life in his name.” No doubt his language was more familiar to his Jewish
readers than it is to us.
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1–5. The Word in His own Nature
1. In the beginning] The meaning must depend on the context. In Genesis 1:1
it is an act done ‘in the beginning;’ here it is a Being existing ‘in the
beginning,’ and therefore prior to all beginning. That was the first moment of
time; this is eternity, transcending time. Thus we have an intimation that the
later dispensation is the confirmation and infinite extension of the first. ‘In
the beginning’ here equals ‘before the world was,’ John
17:5. Compare John
17:24; Ephesians
1:4; and contrast ‘the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,’ Mark 1:1,
which is the historical beginning of the public ministry of the Messiah (John
6:64): ‘the beginning’ here is prior to all history. To interpret
‘Beginning’ of God as the Origin of all things is not correct, as the context
shews.
Etc, etc, Etc.
