Section 8
all the clauses in this verse, we should simply accept this verse as God's Word.
John's writings were brief, but he was very careful. He was aware that some might argue with him, saying, "He was with God and He was God, but He was probably not with God from the beginning. In the beginning He was the Word, but He was not with God. At a later time the Word came to be with God and eventually became God." If you read church history, you will discover that even in the first century there was a school of thought which claimed that originally Christ was not God and that only at a certain time did He become God. Thus, John added verse 2, not as a mere repetition of a part of verse 1, but as a confirmation. "He was in the beginning with God." Christ was with God, and was God from the beginning. In the beginning, that is, from eternity past, the Word was with God. It is not, as supposed by some, that Christ was not with God and was not God from eter nity past, and that at a certain time Christ be came God and was with God. Christ's deity is eternal and absolute. From eternity past to eter nity future, He is with God, and He is God. This is why in this gospel there is no genealogy re garding Him as in Matthew 1 and Luke 3. In this