{"id":36652,"date":"2022-09-13T13:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-john-11\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:04:56","slug":"please-explain-john-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-john-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Please explain John 1:1."},"content":{"rendered":"
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John 1:1-2 is both mistranslated and misunderstood. “With God” is incorrect and the correct reading word-for-word is “towards the God.” <\/strong>This is the same Greek word “towards” (“pros”) used in John 1:29 [King James] “The next day, John sees Jesus coming towards [i.e., unto] him<\/strong>.” Of the 99 uses of “pros” in John’s Gospel, it is translated “unto” or “to” 86 times, but not again one time as “with.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

What does “towards God” mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Towards God” is an idiom that means “pertaining to God<\/strong>,” or, “in the service of God.” The identical idiom used in John 1:1 again is used in Hebrews 2:17 (NASB),“Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God<\/strong>, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.” Again, we find the identical idiom now translated as “with God” Romans 5:1 (NASB) “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God <\/strong>[i.e., in things pertaining to God] through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Certainly, no one understands Romans 5:1 to mean that we are “with” or in the presence of God. Even less that we are “with” or part of God!<\/p>\n

[A scholarly discussion on this idiomatic phrase appears in Steven Mason, Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees, Brill Academic Publishers (2001) page 87]<\/p>\n

What does “was God” mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Word-for-word John 1:1 reads “the Word was towards the God and a god was the Word<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

While Jesus as “the Word” served his heavenly Father, “the God,” he was lower in rank “a god.” As the “Word,” he was a “god” or “mighty one” of the angelic order. The same Greek word, god, is used for mighty people in power in John 10:34-35. Jesus states the judges of Israel were called “gods” (see also Psalm 82:6). Additionally, in 2 Corinthians 4:4, Satan is called the “god of this world.”<\/p>\n

Thus correctly translated and understood, Jesus was the “Word” of God before he was made flesh (John 1:14). He was a mighty one (a god) serving in the things pertaining to (the) God and he has had this privilege since the very beginning of time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John 1:1-2 is both mistranslated and misunderstood. “With God” is incorrect and the correct reading word-for-word is “towards the God.” This is the same Greek word “towards” (“pros”) used in John 1:29 [King James] “The next day, John sees Jesus coming towards [i.e., unto] him.” Of the 99 uses of “pros” in John’s Gospel, it … Continue reading “Please explain John 1:1.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}