John 1:1-2
1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. NAS
Let's compare these verses with two from Proverbs 8.
Proverbs 8:22-23
22 "The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way,
Before His works of old.
23 "From everlasting I was established,
From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
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Should we assume that wisdom is God's feminine counterpart and sits with God in heaven as a co-equal goddess because she was with God in the beginning? I don't know of anyone who interprets Proverbs 8 to prove the preexistence of wisdom as a divine female entity, so why interpret God's Word to be a preexistent divine male entity? God's word is His wisdom expressed in comprehensible language as well as how God created all that exists. In other words the "logos" is God's predetermined plan that existed in the beginning with God.
In John 1:14 we read that God's predetermined plan (word) became flesh. Peter expresses the same concept in Acts 2 and 1 Peter 1.
Acts 2:23
23 this Man, delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.
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1 st Peter 1:19-21
19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. 20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you 21 who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. NAS
Who else existed in the beginning with God based on His foreknowledge?
Romans 8:29-30
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren; 30 and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. NAS
Ephesians 1:3-10
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, 8 which He lavished upon us. In all wisdom and insight 9 He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him 10 with a view to an administration suitable to the fulness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth.
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2nd Timothy 1:8-11
8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me His prisoner; but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, 9 who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, 10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher
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Now let's look at how Greeks viewed the concept of "logos". The Greek philosopher Heraclitus first used the term Logos around 600 B.C. to designate the
divine reason or plan which coordinates a changing universe. Rabbi's taught that God created the Torah in the beginning and created the universe through the Torah, which is God's word. So we can discern that John was using a concept that was understood by both Jews and Greeks to indicate the predetermined design and plan of God, not that the Son existed in the beginning with God and is God. This predetermined plan became flesh with the birth of the Son, who was then endowed with power when God's spirit descended and remained on Him when He was baptized by John the Baptist.