What it is all About!

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The gospel of John starts with a profound statement about the beginning of space and time. 

John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

At the commencement of this reality in which we live, the universe, the Word was already present.  Interestingly, John says the Word was both with God and was God.  The word God is a singular noun, so I believe this to be a preliminary introduction to the concept to a triune God.  A single deity who exists as 3 separate yet equal persons.  One of those Persons is the Word.  Later in the book John will introduce the Father and Holy Spirit, but for now he is interested in the Word who he identifies as Jesus Christ in 1:17-18.

Jesus Christ is the one who created everything that was made.  That would be the entire realm of reality.  The universe we see and the metaphysical world we cannot see.  That would include time.  Time did not exist before there was a 3-dimensional material universe.  If you have questions on that, take them up with Einstein and Stephen Hawkins. They explain it better than I can.  I only bring it up because according to the Bible, God and therefore the Word, existed before anything was made. 

John 4:24 quotes Jesus Christ saying, “God is Spirit.”  He didn’t say a Spirit but just He is Spirit. If Jesus had said “a Spirit” it would suggest a boundary, that God occupies space.  That would be contrary to the Bible’s consistent portrayal of God as being infinite in all His attributes.  Those include His knowledge, presence, power, transcendence and moral qualities.  There is no developmental progression in His person or attributes.  In other words, God is who He has always been.  He doesn’t change. 

Note this from the Apostle John:
1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
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John wanted to highlight the absolute purity of God’s character.  There are no boundaries to His moral attributes.  At no point does His goodness end and any shadow of evil appears.  His love and kindness are everlasting.  His grace, mercy and truth are unending.  But so is His Justice and Righteousness.  The perfect world God Created has been corrupted by evil and He will not let that stand.  And that is really what the Bible is all about.  How God has worked to repair what has been ruined and do it in a way that allows Him to remain just while justifying those who will turn back to Him.