Jesus Christ: The Light Of The World And Is God!

In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

All things were made through Him,

and without Him nothing was made

that was made.

John 1:1–3

            The apostle John, the one who was loved especially by Jesus Christ, the one who leaned against His bosom (John 13:23), exhibits a true testimony that Jesus Christ is indeed the Son of God, in fact that Jesus is God, the Creator, not a co–creator, rather the creator, and that He, Jesus was there when all things began. When it is said that John leaned on the breast, or the bosom of Jesus we must come to understand how that could happen. Unlike us here in the United States where we sit in chairs separated from one anther, the way they ate in the days of Jesus was to lay on couches, feet towards the rear, and leaning on their left arm. Unlike the painting of the Last Supper, a late 15th-century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria where the table is elongated with Jesus in the Middle and the disciples around the back of the table, the table in Jesus day was a square “U”. the Narrative of the last supper, and faced the door. On each end of the table would be a man who would have a sword for protection and they arte with their right hand. Often one would dip a morsel of bread into a broth and give it to be eaten by the man on the left. The Greek words: ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ, “in the bosom” does not mean bosom as we do which is the uterus, rather that it is the front of the body between the arms, therefore when a person is reclined at the table that his head covered, as it were the bosom of the one next to him. When it is said that Jesus “loved” John, the Greek word was agape, a principled, God–like love, a special love. Homosexuals would like to point out that was a homosexual admittance, but this is far from the truth, if it were so, as the homosexual likes to say the word would have been used for love: phileo, a brotherly love. Jesus loved all His disciples but the Scriptures are clear that He had a special love, a special principled love for John and this is clear when the Books of John are read.

            Jesus Christ was in the beginning, not the beginning, there s no place in Scripture that says that there are two beginnings, so Jesus had to exist before anything else existed, and was with God, that is that the Greek word, pros, is used to indicate location and that Jesus was in the same direction as God, the Father, and then the Greek is clear on the last part of verse one. “and the Word was God.” The Greek word, theos, is nominative without the definite article and often the article “a” is place in front of the noun, that is, when it is not describing a noun which it is doing so in this verse. The subject is Logos, and Theos, is a predicate nominative participle, and does not require the letter “a” for “Theos” is describing the subject “Logos.” This then makes clear that the Logos is Theos. Jesus Christ is God. The Jehovah Witnesses place the letter “a” in front of Theos because they are Arian in theology and believe that Jesus was not God, rather a god. This is like Mormonism because this admits to there being more than one God.

            Jesus Christ was a man. He had physicality. He need rest, food, sleep. He met all the requirements to pay the debt that a man, Adam, owed to God and had passed down to all his progeny. It is said that Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God. This is true for Jesus is God, the Wisdom of God: “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God––and righteousness and sanctification and redemption––“(1Corinthians 1:30). Jesus the Wisdom of God was made manifest to the world by His incarnation as foretold from all time: “to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of god might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Ephesians 3:10–11).  All Scripture, being divinely inspired, bears witness to this truth. John defends this fact by setting forth that proposition in particular and does so in an especially lucid manner. This was necessary for at this time Emperor Domitian after Nero persecuted Christians and heretics entered into the Church. They came with good sounding words, advice, and analogies, but like wolves that entered into the sheepfold, they invaded the Church and deprived the Church of its Shepherd. Jehovah Witnesses were not the fist to deny that Jesus was God, and neither was Arius. Marcion, Cerinthus (Gnostic follower) Ebion, and other antichrists dented that Jesus existed before Mary and they stained this simplicity, albeit hard to understand in all its mystery, the simplicity of evangelical faith by their false teachings. This then led John to pen this letter. The Holy Spirit inspired him because the need was urgent. John the one loved especially by Jesus, and we can assume that it was because John converted wholly to Jesus Christ, wrote this to dispel the obscurity the heretics attempted and with some success, to quell the light, and that light was Jesus Christ the Light of the world (John 1:7–10).

Thus says the LORD:

            “Heaven and earth

is My footstool. Where is the

            house that you will

build Me? And where is the

            place of My rest?

For all those things My hand

            Has made, and all those

Things exist,” Says the LORD…

                        Isaiah 65:1–2a).

Let the Light of God shine in you

Richard L. Crumb