“John’s words ought to be retranslated: “The Word was with God the Father and the Word was the Father’s own Word,” to stress that the Word is not an independent divine being, but is the only God’s own self-expression. The ordained Anglican priest and Cambridge theologian, Prof. “For 50 translations which did not assume that logos was a second Person, see Focus on the Kingdom of July, 2004, at . These translations give us the pronoun “it”, not “he” for word.” So he is clearly not a lone wolf in his view that the ‘logos’ in John 1:1 is the mind or the plan of God rather than a being or an entity existing pre-eternally with the Father as Jesus, the Son. Over 50 translations of the Bible as noted by Buzzard do not presume that John 1:1 speaks of a second person in a Triune Godhead. “It is a common but patent misreading of the opening of John’s Gospel to read it as if it said: “In the beginning was the Son, and the Son was with God, and the Son was God” (John 1:1).” This good point is emphatically noted by Trinitarian systematic theologian at Fuller Theological Seminary Dr. The most obvious stumbling block for the Trinitarian interpretation is that the verse, as any ordinary person can see, does not actually say that the “word” is Jesus Christ. These words are most probably regarded as the most profound words ever spoken by the anonymous New Testament author of the fourth gospel (that we conveniently dub “John”) that Trinitarians are most excited by, because they see in this verse the full revelation of Jesus’ divinity and his second personhood in the Trinity. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1) The following traditional rendering of the beginning of the Johannine Prologue comes from the New King James Version. Tafsir al-Kitab al-Muqaddas, Critical Notes and Commentary on Selected Passages of the Old Testament by Ibn Anwar, BHsc (Hons), MCollTĪ fresh new look at John 1:1 from a fresh new translation of the whole New Testament by the eminent scholar, Prof.

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