(John 1:1-3) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made."
Son. The Greek does not say this, and the standard translations simply support ecclesiastical tradition.
The following 50 translations, including 9 before the King James Version in 1611, do not force the reader to understand that the “word” was the Son before the Son’s birth.
It was the Roman Catholic Douay/Rheims version, translated from the Latin by Gregory Martin in 1582, which first rendered John 1:3, “all things were made by him,” rather than “by it” (the “word”
Here is a list of the earliest translations which
1. “All things were made by it” (Tyndale, 1534)
2. “The worde…All things were made by the same” (Coverdale, 1535)
3. “All things were made by it and without it nothing was made” (Matthews’ Bible, 1537)
F4. “All things were made by it and without it was made nothing that was made” (The Great Bible,
1539)
5. “All things were made by it” (Taverner NT, 1540)
6. “All things were made by it”(Whittingham, 1557)
7. “All things were made by it” (The Geneva Bible, 1560)
8. “All things were made by it” (Bishops’ Bible, 1568)
9. “All things were made by it” (Tomson NT, 1607)
10. “Nor can anything be produced that has been made without it [Reason]” (John LeClerc, 1701)
11. “The word…through the same all things were made” (Mortimer, 1761)
12. “In the beginning was Wisdom…All things were made by it” (Wakefield NT, 1791)
13. “The Word…All things were made by it” (Alexander Campbell, founder of the Church of Christ,
1826)
14. “The Word…All things were formed by it” (Dickinson, A New and Corrected Version of the NT,
1833)
15. “All things were made by it” (Barnard, 1847)
16. “Through it [the logos] everything was done” (Wilson, Emphatic Diaglott, 1864)
17. “All things through it arose into being” (Folsom, 1869)
18. “All things were made through it” (Sharpe, Revision of the Authorized English Version, 1898)
19. “All things were made by the Love thought” (Goddard, 1916)
20. “All things came into being in this God-conception and apart from it came not anything into being
that came into being” (Overbury, 1925)
21. “All came into being through it” (Knoch, 1926)
22. “The word…the living expression of the Father’s thought” (Blount, Half Hours with John’s
Gospel, 1930)
23. “The word was god” (C.C. Torrey, The Four Gospels, 1933)
24. “Through the divine reason all things came into being” (Wade, The Documents of the NT
Translated, 1934)
25. “Without it nothing created sprang into existence” (Johannes Greber, 1937)
26. “It was in the beginning with God, by its activity all things came into being” (Martin Dibelius, The
Message of Jesus Christ, translated by F.C. Grant, 1939)
27. “Through its agency all things came into being and apart from it has not one thing come to be”
(William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Readings from St. John’s Gospel, 1939)
28. “The energizing mind was in existence from the very beginning” (Crofts, The Four Gospels, 1949)
29. “First there was the Thought and the Thought was in God…He, him” (Hoare, Translation from
the Greek, 1949)
30. “In the beginning God expressed Himself…That personal expression, that word…He” (J.B.
Philips, NT in Modern English, 1958)
31. “All was done through it” (Tomanek, 1958)
32. “The Word was the life principle [in creation]” (William Barclay, NT, 1969)
33. “This same idea was at home with God when life began…He” (Jordan, Cottonpatch Version,
1970)
34. “All things became what they are through the Word” (Dale, NT, 1973)
35. “Within the Word was life” (Edington, 1976)
36. “It was his last werd. Ony it come first” (Gospels in Scouse, 1977)
37. “By it everything had being, and without it nothing had being” (Schonfield, The Original NT,
1985)
38. “All things were made through the Word” (Inclusive Language Lectionary, 1986)
39. “In the beginning was the Plan of Yahweh. All things were done according to it” (Hawkins, Book
of Yahweh, 1987)
40. “All things happened through it” (Gaus, Unvarnished NT, 1991)
41. “In the beginning was the divine word and wisdom…everything came to be by means of it”
(Robert Miller, The Complete Gospels, Annotated Scholars’ Version, 1992) 42. “All things were made through the Word” (Throckmorton, 1992)
43. “In the beginning there was the divine word and wisdom, everything came into being by means of
it” (Robert Funk, The Five Gospels, 1993)
44. “All things were made by the Word” (NT in the Inclusive Language Bible, 1994)
45. “Through the Word all things came into being” (Inclusive NT, 1994)
46. “All things came into being through the Word” (Gold, NT and Psalms, 1995)
47. “In the beginning was the message, through it all things were done” (Daniels, The Four Gospels: A
Non-Ecclesiastical NT, 1996)
48. “All things through God were made” (VanCleef, 1999)
49. “That word of God was God…God’s way of speaking and acting” (Beck, NT, 2001)
50. “In the beginning was the Word or the expression of divine Logic” (Zeolla, Analytical-Literal
Translation of the NT, 2001)
51. “Nothing but God, and all that He means existed in the beginning of absolutely everything. There
was no possible way to separate God from His meaning, for only by His meaning can He be identified as
God. God’s intentions and purposes existed with Him from the very beginning of everything. God,
through His intentions and purposes created everything that has, or has had, existence in all of time”
(Junkins, A Fresh Parenthetical Version of the NT, 2002)
The evidence of fifty translations and paraphrases will show that it is an imposition on Scripture
Compare what Jesus himself says about the words he spoke:
John 6:63
It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are are life.
Speaking of the Son of God:
(Luke 1:35)speaking to Mary, the angel said:
"The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy offspring shall be called the Son of God."
(not called GOD but rather, the Son of God)
Notice what happened at Jesus baptism;
the Spirit of God came from heaven in the form of a Dove, and then came upon Christ, taking on the form of a man, Jesus Christ. And it was then, God, in Christ, reconciled the world to himself
Consider this scripture:
Matthew 3:16
"And Jesus, having been baptized, went up straightway from the water, and lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him" and behold, a voice out of the heavens saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight."
John 4:24
"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
God glorified his Son by being with him and in him.
Please consider :
Ephesians 4:32
"Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you."
Philippians 3:14
"I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
2 Corinthians 5:19
"namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation."
(Romans 8:39)
"Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
(Deuteronomy 18:18-19) God speaking to Moses:"I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him."
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