What about John 1? (What John 1:1-4 Means)
The first verses of John’s Gospel introduce the Gospel of John. I know, crazy, right! This article interprets the first four verses of the Gospel of John as part of an introduction to the Gospel of John, not as an introduction to or summary of Genesis creation. John 1:1a John’s Gospel starts out “In the beginning” (1:1a), John’s beginning is a parallel to Genesis 1:1, but is not a direct reference to or a commentary on the Genesis creation. John’s Gospel introduces a new “beginning” in the life and ministry (that is, the gospel) of the human person Jesus of Nazareth. The Gospel of John elsewhere used “the beginning” to refer to the beginning of Jesus Gospel, e.g., Jesus says in John 15:27, “and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning” (cf. 8:25, 16:4). [1] “In the beginning was the Word” The human person Jesus is metaphorically called the Word because through Jesus God spoke and worked to bring about the ongoing new creati...