meaning of the word from the philosophers. He simply chose a term that people had been debating about for centuries and declared who He was and what He did. This was new to the world; it was the good news, the gospel. In the beginning can include all beginnings, whether of creation, or time, or the world, or man. The verb was emphasizes that the Word was already in existence before the beginning. The word translated “with God” shows the existence of both the Word and God, the distinction between