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With all the evidence pointing to the word LOGOS as being the Divine plan/motive/thought of YHVH, we can more effectively translate the first 18 verses of John. As one can see, just like in the Greek, it is best to leave the "WORD" untranslated or simply left as LOGOS.
John 1-18
1. In the beginning was the Logos (Divine plan/motive/thought), and the Logos (Divine plan/motive/thought) was with God, and godlike was the Logos (Divine plan/motive/thought).
2. It (Divine plan/motive/thought) was with God in the beginning.
3. All things came to be through it, and without it nothing made had being.
4. In it was life, and the life was the light of mankind.
5. And that light shined in the darkness, and the darkness did not suppress it in any way.
6. There emerged a man sent forth from God; his name was John the Baptist.
7. He came to testify, to bear witness concerning the light (Divine plan/motive/thought), in order that through it everyone might put his trust in God and be faithful to Him.
8. Not that John himself was the light (Divine plan/motive/thought), but rather that he came in order to testify concerning the light.
9. The (Divine plan/motive/thought) was the true light that enlightens each and every human being entering into the world.
10. In the world it was (existing), for the world actually came into being through it, but the world did not realize it.
11. To that which was its own, it came, and those who were its own, did not accept it.
12. But whoever did take it and put their trust in it , to them it gave power to emerge as children of God; to those who were believing in His Name;
13. not as a result of one's bloodline, physical impulse or human intention, but because of God.
14. And the Logos (Divine plan/motive/thought) emerged as a human being. And HE dwelt (tabernacled) among us -- and we beheld with our eyes, His Sh'khinah (glory), the self-same unique Sh'khinah from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15. John testified concerning him. He cried out saying:"This is the MAN I was talking about when I said, 'The one after me comes before me, because he (God's plan of the coming Jesus) existed prior to me (my existence - forerunner to the Messiah).'
16. Likewise, extending out its (Divine plan/motive/thought) fullness, we have all received grace on top of grace.
17. For the Torah, through Moshe, was something given (passively); but grace and truth, through Jesus, actually came into being (actively)."
18. Now, God -- nobody has ever seen Him, ever. However, the only and unique Son, who is at the Father's side (in intimacy) can and has, for God has declared and explained.
With all the evidence pointing to the word LOGOS as being the Divine plan/motive/thought of YHVH, we can more effectively translate the first 18 verses of John. As one can see, just like in the Greek, it is best to leave the "WORD" untranslated or simply left as LOGOS.
John 1-18
1. In the beginning was the Logos (Divine plan/motive/thought), and the Logos (Divine plan/motive/thought) was with God, and godlike was the Logos (Divine plan/motive/thought).
2. It (Divine plan/motive/thought) was with God in the beginning.
3. All things came to be through it, and without it nothing made had being.
4. In it was life, and the life was the light of mankind.
5. And that light shined in the darkness, and the darkness did not suppress it in any way.
6. There emerged a man sent forth from God; his name was John the Baptist.
7. He came to testify, to bear witness concerning the light (Divine plan/motive/thought), in order that through it everyone might put his trust in God and be faithful to Him.
8. Not that John himself was the light (Divine plan/motive/thought), but rather that he came in order to testify concerning the light.
9. The (Divine plan/motive/thought) was the true light that enlightens each and every human being entering into the world.
10. In the world it was (existing), for the world actually came into being through it, but the world did not realize it.
11. To that which was its own, it came, and those who were its own, did not accept it.
12. But whoever did take it and put their trust in it , to them it gave power to emerge as children of God; to those who were believing in His Name;
13. not as a result of one's bloodline, physical impulse or human intention, but because of God.
14. And the Logos (Divine plan/motive/thought) emerged as a human being. And HE dwelt (tabernacled) among us -- and we beheld with our eyes, His Sh'khinah (glory), the self-same unique Sh'khinah from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15. John testified concerning him. He cried out saying:"This is the MAN I was talking about when I said, 'The one after me comes before me, because he (God's plan of the coming Jesus) existed prior to me (my existence - forerunner to the Messiah).'
16. Likewise, extending out its (Divine plan/motive/thought) fullness, we have all received grace on top of grace.
17. For the Torah, through Moshe, was something given (passively); but grace and truth, through Jesus, actually came into being (actively)."
18. Now, God -- nobody has ever seen Him, ever. However, the only and unique Son, who is at the Father's side (in intimacy) can and has, for God has declared and explained.
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