Jesus isn’t mentioned until John 1:14, and God’s Word made flesh is a poetic way of saying Jesus is the prophet who spoke God’s Word.
Thank you for your interpretation. Now, if you wish to know something from a knowledgable Catholic theologian, read on…
The following is taken from Frank Sheed’s book, Theology for Beginners. Please, buy it. I recommend it. You may not agree with it, but at least you’ll know what we believe and why we believe…
[pg 4] I remember an educated Catholic who was asked how God could be in three persons and answered, “God is omnipotent, and can be in as many persons as he likes.”
[pg 10] God is a spirit…
[pg 55] Spirit is a partless, spaceless, immortal being, which can know and love…
[pg 33] But there cannot be two infinite natures - one would be limited by not being the other and by not having power over the other. Therefore, since the Son has infinite nature, it must be the same identical nature as the Father’s.
This truth, that Father and Son possess the one same nature, might remain wholly dark to us if St. John had not given us another term for their relation - the second person is the “Word” of the first.
So God utters a word - not framed by the mouth, of course, for God has no mouth. He is pure spirit. So it is a word in the mind of God… What idea produced in God’s mind could possibly be God? Christian thinking saw early that it could be only the idea God has of himself.
The link between having a son and having an idea of oneself is that both are ways of producing likeness. Your son is like in nature to yourself; your idea of yourself bears some resemblance to you too - though it may be imperfect, for we seldom see ourselves very clearly; too many elements in us we see as we wish they were, too many we do not see at all.
Whatever is in the Father must be in his idea of himself, and must be exactly the same as it is in himself. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And the Word was God.”
Men have ideas, and any given idea is something. God’s idea of himself is not something only; it is Someone, for it can know and love.
The thinker and the idea are distinct, the one is not the other, Father and Son are two persons. But they are not separate. An idea can exist only in the mind of the thinker; it cannot, as it were, go off and start a separate life of its own. The idea is in the same identical nature; we could equally say that the nature is in the idea, for there is nothing that the Father has which his Word, his Son, has not. “Whatsoever the Father has, that the Son has in like manner” (Jn 16:15). Each possesses the divine nature, but each is wholly himself, conscious of himself as himself, of the other as other.
[pg 36] As the one great operation of spirit, knowing, produces the second person, so the other, loving, produces the third. But be careful upon this - the second proceeds from, is produced by, the first alone; but the third, the Holy Spirit, proceeds from Father and Son, as they combine to express their love. Thus in the Nicene Creed we say of him who proceeds from the Father and the Son…
[pg 37] Remember that we are making this study not to discover whether there are three persons in God (for he has revealed that there are), still less to verify it (for no effort of our mind could make it any surer than God’s own word), but simply to get more light on it and from it.
I hope this helps. But I know nothing can help you now. Your mind is too closed for our faith. I am sending you this just so you know that we have reasons for our faith. And you shouldn’t say rude things like…
You are just sour grapes because you know I’m right.
More blather. But I guess it is expected, since Muslims simply do not have the courage to state the obvious. There was NO biological Father, since Jesus was BEGOTTEN of GOD. So, no “seed”. The only one responsible for Jesus’ birth is God. Period. Making God Jesus’ Father.
