Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
There has been a lot of discussion arround John 1
In the O. T. “dabar” – "word" means oracle, never a deity. This Word (dabar) proceeded from the mouth of God. By this Word God did His acts. By this Word God created heaven and earth. So this Word was God in the sense that God made Himself known by His Ward.
Num 11:23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now
whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
Deu 4:10 The day that you stood before Jehovah your God in Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Gather the people to Me, and
I will make them hear My Words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live on the earth; and that they may teach their sons.
Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and
will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Job 4:9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Job 26:13 By his spirit (ruah – breath) he hath garnished the heavens...
Psa 33:6
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psa 33:9
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
Psa 103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Psa 104:30
Thou sendest forth thy spirit (ruah – breath), they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Psa 107:20
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Psa 119:105
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psa 138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word (imrah – speech) above all thy name.
Psa 147:15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
Psa 147:18
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Psa 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD:
for he commanded, and they were created.
Psa 148:8
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Isa 1:10
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isa 30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood;
the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Isa 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate:
for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit (ruah – breath), it hath gathered them.
Isa 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but
the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Isa 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and
all their host have I commanded.
Isa 45:23
I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Remember Phi 2:9-11?
Wherefore
God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Isa 48:3
I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
Isa 55:11
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
1Ki 16:12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
Jer 10:12
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Jer 10:13
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
Jer 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for
I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
Jer 23:29
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Zec 7:12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and
the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
Lam 3:38
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Hos 6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words (emer – speech) of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
Mic 2:7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings?
do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
Just to remind:
In the O. T. “dabar” translated as “word” was an oracle, never a deity. This Word proceeded from the mouth of God. By this Word God did His acts. By this Word God created heaven and earth. So this Word was God in the sense that God made Himself known by His Ward.
Now the big distortion of the Word begins to take place. The Word of God becomes Jesus (the same way the wisdom of God in Proverbs 8 became Mary). There would be nothing wrong if it was understood to mean that God had fulfilled what He promised by His Word namely to rise to Israel a saviour, a son (compare Ps 82:6, Joh 10:35, 1Jo 3:1-2) not God. Unfortunately this doctrine needed a “prove” so here we have it. It is so easy to promote it today because hardly anyone cares to get to know God according to His Word (dabar) as He has revealed Himself to mankind in the O.T. We have so many new Churches coming up today. Yet they teach different doctrines. Why? They don’t bother to study the O.T. They say that the O.T. doesn’t apply to us. So they get to know God according to their own imagination.
God expected this distortion to come about so He repeated (in the N.T.) that
He made the word by His utterance.
Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word (rhema – utterance) of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
God also made it clear that Jesus spoke the Word (logos).
Joh 12:48
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words (rhema - utterance), hath one (personification) that judgeth him: the word (logos as in Joh 1:1-3) that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Act 10:36 The word (logos) which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all
Did Jesus ever say that he was God? No. But Jesus said: there is only one true God the Father and our life eternal is subject to this belief. His ward (logos) shall judge you and I in the last day.
So it appears that Jesus didn’t make things spoken about in Joh 1. The only true God the Father did all things by His Word.
The Greek word dia tranlated in Joh 1:3 "by" rather means through:
Dia - a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through (in very wide applications, local, causal or occasional). In composition it retains the same general import: - after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) . . . fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X though, through (-out), to, wherefore, with (-in). In composition it retains the same general import.
So there seems to go the notion that Jesus made the world
God bless
