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In the beginning was the Word, “ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.He was with God in the beginning.Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
John 1:1-3 NIV
The Gospel of John begins with this metaphysical equation of God with “the Word,” who it becomes clear shortly thereafter, is Jesus. But the Word that would take on flesh and become Jesus is here being identified with the principle of creation through whom all things were made, and we aren’t necessarily compelled to believe that prior to Jesus’ physical existence it was Jesus who was creating the world, but rather that the Word is the creative aspect of the Godhead which would later take on the physical and historical aspect of Jesus. Jesus is the historical manifestation of the Word, who existed at a particular time and place and with a particular body, but the Word is also the ahistorical and timeless creative part of God which brought the physical universe into being and continues this creative function as the universe continues to unfold. Jesus helps us to understand God and at the same time helps us to see the invisible God in the visible
universe. –Christopher Simon
