Help With The Greek

[Michael The Disciple]

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.

IMO they are correct to point out that the Logos is/was personal. The difference is to them the personality is a distinct person of God numerically.

The truth of the personality is that it is God himself, the Father in A PERSONAL FORM.

As in Heb. 1:3 The express image of HIS PERSON. Not another person but his OWN.

So yes the Logos is/was PERSONAL.

And yes the Logos IS disctinct from the Father in the sense of mode of being.

Distinct in that "God" is omnipresent eternal Spirit and the Logos is visible and local.

In this understanding yes, the Logos IS personal yet distinct and yet preserves the oneness of God.