Help With The Greek

[Michael The Disciple]

Originally Posted by Costeon

I don't believe that you'll get far with your debating partners if you were to say that there is no difference between "God was the Word" and "the Word was God." I would imagine that most would just first say that grammatically only one is a legitimate translation (the Word was God) and then second that theos without the article ho shows not an identity of person but an identity of divine essence, which of course, is classic Trinitarianism. To support this, all they will do is point to the context of vv. 1-18 and show that the Logos is described in personal times and is distinguished from the Father, so for them, the Logos is obviously not the Father, but is with the Father and is fully divine sharing the Father's essence.

So do you surrender John 1:1 to the Trins?