Also theos is a definite noun and therefore cannot have the indefinite article a. It is important to keep in mind that when John 1:1 states that “the Word was God,” it does not mean “Jesus is God the Father” or “Jesus is the Trinity.” The Jehovah’s Witnesses booklet “The Word”—Who Is He? According to John (p. 6) erroneously tries to suggest that this is what non-Jehovah’s Witnesses mean by their translation “The Word was God.” But this is not the case at all. As already shown, this clause stresses