John 1:14-18

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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The Bible begins with this well-known verse. “In the beginning God”: in the beginning, before the beginning began, God was already there. “…created the heavens and the earth”: everything else had a beginning when the beginning began. Everything else was created by its Creator, God. “In the beginning was the Word.” Thus begins John’s gospel in a clear echo of Genesis 1. It continues, “All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.” There is a fundamental distinction between that which was there in the beginning and that which has a beginning, between Creator and creation, between Maker and made, between God and everything else. But John tells us more than Genesis; his Prologue elaborates, telling us more about who was there in the beginning.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. (John 1:1-2