Emphatic statement of eternality of Jesus in the Greek scriptures of John 1 as well as the distinct personality of the Word.
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It is evident that word translated as beginning in English in John's letters gives no hint of being eternal in other places.
(1 John 2:7) Beloved ones, I am writing you, not a new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning.
(1 John 3:11) For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
Why would John 1:1 be the exception especially as this would clash with other Scriptures that tell us Jesus is Jehovah's first creation and thus cannot be eternal as is his Father. - Psalm 90:2
(Colossians 1:15) He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
