In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
This is Book of Genesis and referring to the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) and the Old Testament.
1.So Jesus didn’t say that, and in fact we have to interpret it as the Father and not Jesus.
I can see that John did told us more than Jesus did to say about himself or God while he is neither a direct Apostle of Jesus or even interpreted as the Advocate.
So he can be nothing but the false prophet from the antichrist family or the antichrist himself referring to Jesus.
So what i saw in (Malachi 3:1-5) that actually John wanted to be interpreted as the Advocate himself
"There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe. 8He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. "
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.
"Yes Jesus is the word from God the word that you just mentioned in the very opening of Luke.(So if he came from the word of God that was God or God’s will), then he was existing and everybody was existent in the world of “pre-creation”
*But not only that, Jesus is a special soul “Holy spirit” may truly existed for sure before Abraham, until that soul sent from God to Mary to give born to Jesus as a human being.
62 Then Jesus answered, “I am;
Yes Jesus is the Messiah , but son of God is an added word i can prove it if you want just in 1 minute.(as that happened many times from version to another they changed the word Messiah to Messiah son of living God etc)
and ‘you will see the Son of Man
seated at the right hand of the Power
*Yes means son of man Jesus as he said will be seated at the right hand of the Power(God) which means he will have great ranking at that time(day of judgement), even Moses is mentioned to exist near the thrown of God in that day including the best of human believers mainly the latest prophets etc.
and coming with the clouds of heaven.’”
Jesus will do that when he returns to kill Antichrist and to spread his new message and glorify the father according to bible and Hadith of prophet Muhamed as well describing this fact exactly with more details and professes.
So better to understand Father as the one true God; Holy spirit the spirit that came from God, and the word of God as the will of God “God says for anything
be and it is”
After that give any contradiction that actually can still exist in any bible that makes Christians confused about the religion and God.
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Did Jesus Claim to be God]
No he didn’t , and the misinterpretation is true not in all bible but specially in some spots where they clearly change for example Messiah to Messiah the son of the living God , this actually enough to prove misinterpretation made by some authors of some bible versions even if you find one bible that didn’t used same definition that should be misinterpretation and misquotation as well.