A Plain Parallel to John’s Prologue

Here is a down-to-earth parallel to help make John’s Prologue easier to see:

In the beginning were my hands, and my hands were with me, and my hands were me.

They were with me in the beginning.

Through them the bench came to be, and apart from them nothing of that bench came to be.

Now, no one would read that and think there are two Igors.

No one would think my hands are a second personal subject beside me.

No one would think my hands planned apart from me, acted apart from me, or built the bench independently from me.

Yet the statement is still true:

The bench came to be through my hands.

My hands are distinct from my inner self, my mind, and my soul aspect. But they are still mine. They belong to my own bodily structure. When my hands build, I am the one building through them.

That is the simple point.

John says:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

The “Word” being with God shows distinction.

The “Word” being God shows identity.

And all things coming to be through the Word shows God acting through His own Form.

The “Word” is not a second divine person beside God.

The “Word” is the designator John gives to God’s own Form in revelatory and creative action.

So John’s Prologue does not require two divine persons.

It reveals one God acting through His own Form.

Distinct from God’s Soul.

Belonging to God’s identity.

Through whom God Himself creates and reveals.

Igor Pogoda | Christ Rooted | Divine Identity Theology (DIT)