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To hear the One God Report Podcast of this transcript, click here .  In a previous podcast, episode #7, called Jesus is the Beginning of God’s New Creation , we saw that the literary context of the Gospel of John requires that we understand John’s prologue to be introducing the ministry and life of Jesus. In our last podcast, episode #15, called More New Creation in the Gospel of John we saw how the Old Testament scriptures anticipated a New Creation, and how language, events and the miracles recorded in John’s Gospel declare the New Creation coming with Jesus the Messiah. This is further evidence that John’s introduction, the prologue to his Gospel, should be understood in a New Creation, or New Beginning context.   In this podcast we will take a closer look at the historical context in which 1 st century readers of John’s Gospel would have understood this Gospel to be about a new beginning. We will also see how other New Testament authors saw in Jesus a new beginning, ...

The Gospel of John and a New Beginning: Jesus is the Beginning of God’s New Creation   To hear the podcast of this text, click here . “What about John 1:1?” Ever since I came to understand from the Bible that God (Yehovah, YHVH) is one, and that Jesus is God’s human Messiah (Christ) whom God raised from the dead, people say to me: “What about John 1:1?”. For my friends who believe in the “deity of Christ”, John 1:1 is biblical evidence that Jesus is God. I think they are missing a main point of what John 1:1 and the entire Gospel of John are declaring. That main point is that through the life and ministry of the human person Jesus the Messiah, God is bring about a new  beginning, a promised New Creation. Jesus is the Beginning of God’s New Creation. As the words and deeds of Jesus recorded by John present evidence, the ultimate evidence that Jesus is the beginning of God’s New Creation is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead (John 20). As John records i...