John 1:1

 

John 1:1, says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."  At the beginning of the world, the Word, Christ, already existed.  In the beginning does not mean that God suddenly appeared at some point.  God has always and will always be.  Verse two adds, The same was in the beginning with God.  God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, the Three in One, have always been and will always be. The Christ we serve as our Savior did not come into existence a little over two thousand years ago.  He always has been.  Neither is He a second God, but He is God. Though He would become a man during His ministry on earth, He did not cease to be God.  Though I cannot explain the Three in One nature of God effectively, I can accept in faith that it exists.  Though we speak of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as being different Beings. They are not.  There is but one God, shown to us in three different manifestations.  We must never try to make the three into different Gods.  I have heard people say they believe in Jesus as their Savior but want nothing to do with the God of the Old Testament.  We must realize and acknowledge that they are the same.  Since the beginning, Christ has been God.  There is no Old Testament God Who is not the New Testament God.  So, as His followers, even if we cannot totally understand the nature of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as the One true God, we must accept the fact by faith.  Jesus, our Redeemer, always was and always will be God.