#agod

[eli-kittim]

Was the Word “God” or “a god” in John 1.1?

By Bible Researcher Eli Kittim 🎓

John 1.1 (SBLGNT):

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς

τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.

John 1.1, which is a throwback to Genesis 1.1, aims to define the primordial relationship of “the Word” (i.e. Christ) to God. But certain skeptics have challenged the idea that the fullness of the godhead was in Christ (Col. 2.9), who is said to be “the Word” (i.e. ὁ λόγος). Specifically, Jehovah's Witnesses have raised the argument of “a god” in John 1.1, implying that Christ is a lesser and inferior god that was created. Let’s explore that assertion. John 1.1 is traditionally broken up into three phrases that are separated by commas:

1st phrase: Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος,

2nd phrase: καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς

τὸν θεόν,

3rd phrase: καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.

First, to suppose that John is talking about many gods, or more than one god, is a theological speculation and a grammatical imposition that is going beyond what is written in the text or what we know about the theology of the Gospel of John.

Second, John *did* mention the definite article τόν in the second phrase, and so he is not obligated to repeat it in the third phrase, as that would be redundant and tautological.

Third, another reason why the third phrase of John 1.1 doesn’t require the definite article (before the term θεός) is because it was already *used* in the second phrase, and therefore it necessarily *carries over.* For example, if I were to write, “I have a pretty good temper, and a very amiable disposition,” I would not be required to repeat the first part of the phrase. In other words, I wouldn’t be required grammatically to write “I have a pretty good temper, and [I have] a very amiable disposition.” The “I have” is *carried over* and doesn’t need to be repeated. It would be considered redundant. Similarly, in addressing τόν Θεόν with a definite article in the second phrase, John doesn’t have to repeat τόν Θεόν in the third phrase, since it is *carried over.* Here’s another example. I could write “God is one being, not two beings.” But that’s redundant. Now, if I were to rewrite the same sentence correctly and say “God is one being, not two,” would anyone argue that the term “two” may not necessarily refer to the concept of being because the word “being” is not mentioned? That’s the same kind of argument that skeptics are raising here in John 1.1.

Since John has already established (as a monotheist) that he’s talking about one (and-only-one) particular God (namely, τόν Θεόν) in the second phrase, then this syntactical construction must necessarily *carry over* into the third phrase. In other words, the term Θεός in the third phrase grammatically refers back to “the God” (τόν Θεόν) mentioned in the second phrase. Therefore, when John writes——… τὸν θεόν (second phrase), καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος (third phrase)——the “God” of the third phrase is a direct reference to “the God” of the second phrase. It’s obviously the same “God” in both phrases, not a different one. And given that God is one being, not two, which other god could John be possibly referring to?

In Greek, the third phrase in John 1.1 is actually read in two different ways, not only as “the Word was God,” but also as “God was the Word.” In the third phrase, there’s no ontological distinction between God and the Word——after all, they share one being: “I and the Father are one” (Jn 10.30)——because John already made the distinction (of persons) in the second phrase.

Thus, the “a god” argument of the Jehovah’s Witnesses——which is raised in “The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT)——is totally bogus and unwarranted both grammatically and theologically!

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[gmeldivine]

☀️Me 🤴🏾& Not me✨🔥

#brooklyn #gemini sun #melanin #Agod

[mishalogic]

God on a pushbike

Evern a "penny farthing"

now, that's what I'd like to see ... Misha

#AGod #pushbike #penny farthing #bicycle

[brainworms-all-night-long]

BRO

BrO?????

BRO?????

#sonic idw #so I come.back after three days after touching grass in the mountains #read the newest idw issue #and???? #mf got a gun to ber face??????? #me thinks this issue wa s agod wrap up like dayumn #wouldnt it be funny if we find eggman in a hospital after this #cuz like the city exploded and all #he cant be dead cuz what than #poor metal tho #he just try his best and always gets beat down :[ #one day you will get a good day #...hopefully #dr eggman #ivo robotnik #tangle the lemur #sonic the hedgegog #sonic #e 123 omega #metal sonic #sonic idw spoilers

[thatbendyfan]

rotating an animatic i will never make in my head rn

#i haven’t even started the cjrp map and i’m thinking about this!!! silly me #bendy and the post machine #“the whole being dead thing” with agod and copycat…………..

[chanstopher]

230221 Maniac in Sydney ©️ 97㌘

#bang chan #christopher bang #fs pics #230221 #my aGod

[the-helper-house]

[gay bitches on my dash good lord]

#/pos #narrator #<- watching the Agod and Copycat interactions #cameraman

[azzther]

she looks so uncomfortable help sdkjsdjsd

#LAE'ZEL'S PITYING GAZE #DONT WORRY SWEETY YOU'RE PLAYING THAT LUTE LIKE AGOD #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #starded once againa new save this time with shadowheart #shadowheart

[thelasttime]

you used a fork once ................... it turns out forks are fucking everywhere

#.txt #sabrina ur agod

[legzeppelin]

im listening to the Youre Wrong About mcdonalds hot coffee case episode again and i just have such a visceral depressing reaction to the story of the woman who told her doctor she was allergic to an ingredient in the contrast injection you get before a CT scan and the doctor was like "thats not real you'll be fine lol" and then injected her and it made her extremely sick and disabled her. FOR LIFE. and she tried to sue and everyone ignored her and threw her case out because her profession was that she was a medium or whatever.

like can you. fucking imagine. god i hope that doctor lost his job. and i hope she found a way to live comfortably

#it made her unable to concentrate without getting a splitting headache. which i can fucking relate to #it is no joke and it makes literally every avenue of earning an income impossible #anyway #reminds me of the time one of the women working in the billing department of my old therapists office went to a doctor because she was #having post menopausal bleeding and the doctor was like oh its nothing take some birth control #and then months later she finally got a second opinion and it was fucking late stage ovarian cancer. #i have no idea what happened to her but she probably died. because this stupid fucking waste of a doctor didnt know agod damn fucking thing #i #HATE #doctors

[stoneqoldcrazy]

beat bg3 a second time holy moly

#gabby's gabbing #tbh i didnt like this playthrough i didnt really know what to do with my tav so i just fucked around made astarion ascend and made gale agod #etc etc

[turned-on-tum-rubs]

y'all got your weirdly specific characters you like to think/rp belly stuff with?

cuz mine weirdly enough has become monika from ddlc

#listen LISTEN #having a character in a video game who can control the code??? #like??? #the possibilities man #she can litteraly manipulate how fat she is jfkldsjfklsdjflmdskljfkldsfjkds #anyway chat gpt is agod send #tum talk

[thecopycatanon]

D:

[im only doing what you all asked!]

#-@feral-anon-noises #[agod forbid i have any fun]

[fandomssaremysoul]

I HAVE A DREAM

That one day I'll be in a DnD group where I can play Oralia Levenmort, a half elf who is a necromancer that pretends to be a cleric.

Have I finalized how I'd play her? No

Did I find spells she could use? Cantrips for now.

We have Light, Mending and Toll the dead. These are spells that can be used by both clerics and wizards.

Now for some of the ideas I have for others. Ofc we have the combination of Fire bolt and Sacred flame. It generally looks similar just different types or damage.

Then Chill touch which I matched up with Hand of radience. With the help of minor illusion I could potentially make the hand seem Divine™ instead of skeletal.

And the third,,, which is a stretch but might work is the wizard spell Sapping sting and the cleric spell Decompose. I could say that my Decompose just decomposed some cells or a part of the body, or again use minor illusion.

Thats it for now I will be back with updates.

#Dnd #dnd 5e character #dungeon master #dungeons and dragons #One single time player looking for group #Player has anxiety adhd and is European which means a shit schedule #Cleric #Wizard #Necromancer #I also want to make her look like a really devout follower of agod #Even tho shes not #Shes here to have a good time not a long one #And to piss of her mother as much as she can along the way

[mixxiw]

not italy losing the set when they were 2-0

#fanz.txt #ganiscedsa gesudbjshs #they had a game not even 24 hrs agod ksj

[thatbendyfan]

A GUIDE TO THE PLAYGROUND WARRIOR CATS RP THAT IS CJRP

hello! if you’re here, that means you’re confused about cjrp (let’s be real who wouldn’t be), and i’m here to help you!

this will NOT be a guide to the lore, just an explanation on what cjrp is and a little timeline. if i were to make a lore guide, i’d have to constantly update it and keep up with every single anons lore, which is… more than a difficult task. sorry- maybe you can ask the blog owners to make a lore post for their anons?

THE ORIGINS

cjrp stared with @/plussheep (aka ruler, owner of @/thrulerofeverything) @/gaignunkukai (aka feenie, owner of @/nothings-wholey) @/demo-3 (aka simon, owner of @/egoistic-queer) and yours truly (aka bendy/apollo, former owner of @/not-the-organ)! it began mostly with small lore chunks that were similar to an arg- lots of ciphers, hints and clues. eventually, though, something happened that completely changed the course of cjrp.

THE ANON WAR

taking place on soul’s blog, the anon war was… well, a war where all the anons with signoffs came to fight. allies were made, enemies were made, but above all… blogs were made. anons began creating blogs as to fight in the war easier and not clog up soul’s inbox. however, this very, very quickly escalated. if you want to see the anon war, it’s on @/egoistic-queer’s blog under #anon war

THE ANON BLOGS

there are so… SO MANY anon blogs. i’m dreading to compile a list of them later on in a reblog of this post (/hj, im also pretty excited to see how many there are). the anons are ocs created by “narrators”, which are the people describing the actions of a blog. for example:

some anons tend to get creative with this, such as @/fluffy-creechur! a few characters, such as the cjrpcraft characters don’t have narrators at all.

FAQ

can i make an anon blog?

of course! anyone is free to make a blog and join cjrp (however i warn you, the nameless anons do tend to bite ;))

are there any requirements to join cjrp? rules i should be careful not to break?

not really! i think as long as you’re not promoting any controversial topics or making anyone uncomfortable, you’re free to join in!

is shipping okay?

absolutely! if you’re going to ship your anon with someone else’s, you should ask first, but there’s tons of established relationships! yellow and des, copycat and agod, the list goes on!

how am i ever supposed to remember all this lore?! there’s so much going on!! SOMEONE DIED YESTERDAY?! HUH?!

here’s the thing!! you’re not! so much happens every single day in cjrp that it’s impossible to keep track! so stop worrying about keeping up to date with every single blog- that’s not to mean ignore what’s happening if you see it (we all love attention here after all), but there’s no pressure to know everything :)

do i really need to follow every single one of these blogs?

you don’t need to, but it’d make a lot of us happy :) if you see a blog that hasn’t been updated in a while, i’d say more than two weeks, i think it’s safe to not follow if you don’t want to crowd your following page

am i allowed to use sensitive topics in my blog?

most of that stuff is okay! just remember that a very large amount of cjrpers are minors, so you’ll probably get a less than great reaction if you try to post nsfw. gore is usually okay, though! just make sure you tag anything potentially triggering :)

what’s a [insert word that cjrpers use a lot]

narrator: person who describes the environment the anon is in, sometimes a character as well. generally used with anons who break the fourth wall

named anon (referred to mostly as just anons): an anon/character with a blog

nameless: an actual anon, someone who sends an ask to a blog anonymously

anon village/headspace: the place in which the anons reside within whole’s psyche

titan blood: originating from the owl house, titan blood transforms anyone who drinks it into a half-titan. this usually results in creature-like appendages such as wings (birdlike or otherwise), tails, antlers, etc.

#bendy and the post machine #cjrp #cjrp guide post