John 1:2-3 (WEL) He was in the beginning with God. 3 Everything was made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.
V2 He was in the beginning with God.
He is the Word, that is, Jesus Christ, God the Son. The beginning refers to Genesis chapter 1, for the Bible is written to the inhabitants of the Earth. This verse also reveals that the Son is not God the Father but a separate person. God is one; there is only one God. This one and only God is of three persons, namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The persons are one in essence that is the stuff that God is—a spirit (John 4:24) and one in character traits consisting of noncommunicable traits (omniscience, omnipotence, self-existence, eternity, etc. that no other being has or can have) and communicable traits (love, anger, mercy, kindness, compassion, etc. that can be shared with created beings).
V3 Everything was made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.
Jesus, God the Son, is the creator read about in Genesis 1, etc. God made everything according to His blueprint. Nothing living has, is, or will be created by any other creature. Compare Colossians 1:16.
(Holman Commentary) “Creation is a foundational doctrine of the Christian faith. Virtually every other aspect of theology rests upon our understanding of God as the origin of all life and of the role Jesus Christ, the Word, in creation. John could hardly say it more clearly: without him, nothing was made that has been made—everything from subatomic particles to galaxies. Only God, who created all things, can redeem them. Creation is the foundation stone of the gospel. Christ could not have been created, for he created all things. There was a “historical Jesus,” but this terminology refers only to his thirty-three years on Earth. His life had no beginning, and it will have no end.”
We learn:
- Jesus is a separate person in the Trinity.
- Jesus is the creator.
Questions:
- How can you explain the Trinity?
- How important is it that Jesus is the Creator?