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                    ||                       How beautiful on the mountains
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                    ||                       proclaim salvation, who say to
                                             Zion, "Your God reigns!"
          Pastor RALPH & GENE ANN WOOD                  --Isaiah 52:7 (NIV)
          E-mail:  randg.wood@encode.com
          BIBLE STUDY QUESTIONS, 02/12/1997 .............. JOHN 01:01-03,14
          Background:--  John opens his prologue (verses 1-18), in words
          which remind us of the opening of GENESIS.  This identifies Jesus
          Christ, God the only-begotten Son, with the eternal Word, through
          whom all things were made.  Through whom a new covenant of grace
          had now been instituted.
          1)   A literal translation of verses 1-2 reads, "In the beginning
          was [continuously] the Word, and the Word was [continuously] with
          [toward/(in company) with] God, and the Word was God.  This (one)
          [/-He-] was [continuously], in the beginning with God!"  In his
          epistle, 1 JOHN, John makes every effort to show Jesus really was
          a human being.  Would you agree that here in the gospel of JOHN,
          he makes every effort to show that Jesus truly was God?
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          2)   In JOHN 1:14a, John reveals a great mystery, "And the Word
          became flesh, and dwelt [/tabernacled (i.e., lived temporarily)]
          among us."  Would you agree that through John, God here reveals
          to us, that Jesus was at once both truly God and truly human?
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          3)   John wrote the gospel of JOHN, "so you might believe that
          Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you may
          have life in His name [JOHN 20:31]."   Why was it necessary for
          our salvation, that God the Son, while still being God, became
          also a human being?
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