@gumUnderfootOh NO, now you're parroting someone else's...

@gumUnderfoot

Oh NO, now you're parroting someone else's rubbish.

The RM that deserted me many years ago like a flash, when I was a trinity follower, because I dared to ask a few questions.
He clearly was not interested in the likes of Jesus's message, of going after that one lost sheep

" So we have the Word and God in the most intimate relationship yet separate and distinct."

Are you paying attention to the bold here, now couple that with - And God was the Word = are You seeing the impossible here?????????
How is one in the same, separate???????????

"there is no definite article in 1b,"

That is a bare face LIE and RM should know better than to say such..
Can you tell me WHY they remove "The" as in "the God" in 1:1b?????????????

Why would John if he was writing about Jesus in 1:1, 2 would he not just say - In beginning was the Jesus..............
He does NO such thing as that is NOT what he is referring to.