How can two people be incredibly close, yet completely distinct individuals? We understand this in human relationships: a parent and child, a husband and wife, the closest of friends. They share life and love, yet they are not the same person. The Bible opens its story of Jesus with a similar, yet infinitely more profound, dynamic. It presents us with a divine mystery right in the first verse. A mystery of perfect unity and distinct relationship. Let’s look at what the beginning tells us about the very nature of God himself.