John's prologue
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▸ ± Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John jumps into the book writing business with Mark, Matthew and Luke in front of him. These books are in wide circulation and he sees no reason to merely restate what they have said. His motivation is to capture the latest theological discoveries in the mystery.
He pushes the beginning of the gospel to the very beginning of God's revelation, and later demonstrates the fullness of the plan of God within the alphabet itself, to say that the beginning of the gospel occurred before the beginning.
The doctrine of John's first sentence is derived from the word-play and notarikon of the first three words of Genesis 1:1.
