Flee from idolatry

Originally posted by Copperbod: ↑

"This is the ONLY option where you have "was"eimi: I exist, I am
Original Word: εἰμί
Part of Speech: VerbTransliteration: eimi
Phonetic Spelling: (i-mee')
Definition: I exist, I am
Usage: I am, exist."
I am completely out of my depth when it comes to understanding and translating Greek.
However you are way behind me yet imagine you know better than countless Greek speaking translators ??
Go figure.

I still don't understand what your issue is with translating "eimi:" as "was" because in this context John is writing about something that existed in the beginning ... his past. In other words it "was" in the beginning.

If your objection is that was is not a valid word then you need to look again.
The Strong's simple concordance is a generality certainly not the only words that can be used because "eimi:" is a verb and doesn't detail what tense .. which in Greek is a very complicated matter.
Why do you think the saying "It's all Greek to me" was invented !
Just look at all the other concords on that same page.
https://biblehub.com/greek/1510.htm

Even so I don't see how your version affects the meaning or clarifies what John was trying to convey .. that the Word was with God and God is and was the Word.

Most of your issues are because you insist on Sola Scriptura and the claimed infallibility/God's word of the Bible. It just isn't true.

Thus you (and plenty of others) must spend huge amounts of time trying to devise an interpretation that fits a square peg into a round hole. All with slightly different pegs !

Can't help with 1:14 except as part of the above.
You will never convince a single conventional Christian that John was not trying to elevate Jesus to the status of the Word and as a support for the Trinity doctrine.
Better to forget that dead end and concentrate on the real issues such as John claiming that Jesus, well known as the word and image of God is the God/Word that facilitated the Creation of the Universe.
That's John's claim and overreach of the divinity of Jesus.
The first questions should be why none of this is even hinted at in the other Gospels and why is John's Gospel so different from the others.

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"Better to forget that dead end and concentrate on the real issues such as John claiming that Jesus, well known as the word and image of God is the God/Word that facilitated the Creation of the Universe."

John claims NO such thing as you claim here.
John is not claiming Jesus is the Word, not to mention, the 17 verses are God speaking.
Man was in the image of God, hence the writer of John would have know this, so not big deal.
Writer would also be aware of numerous OT verses that Yehowah alone and by himself, was the creator and created for, on account of, by reason of, the future one to be = Jesus as per Mary.

"That's John's claim and overreach of the divinity of Jesus."

He makes NO such claim other than, Jesus is the Son of God.

"The first questions should be why none of this is even hinted at in the other Gospels and why is John's Gospel so different from the others."

For one, the writer of John and I would say John the Baptist, were perhaps favored more by God, hence their name meaning etc.
Entrusted with more deeper and spiritual messages as the spiritual aspect was going to be Very important, after Jesus.
One would now be entering the Heavenly Kingdom, spiritually, prepping for the home run, stage 3.

Opener of John is to show, God is Word and us likewise, are deemed as Words as well = words of God or words of the other.
Those of God have seen and heard God = they saw and heard word = God I AM Word.