Vortex of Awesome

John 1: 1-4 ESV

The Word Became Flesh

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The most pressing question of mankind is, “Who is Jesus?” Was He a Prophet, a good man, a mythical figure like Apollo, or was He actually the Son of God? C.S. Lewis is famous for saying,

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [that is, Christ]: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse…. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”


–C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity

So, the choice is yours. Who is Jesus to you? He is either a lunatic, a liar or the Son of God. Let us look at who the Bible says He is in this passage from the opening remarks from the Gospel of John. John wanted to set the record straight, right from the beginning of his historical account of Jesus, who he is and why what he was writing is so important for everyone to read. 

John starts out from the beginning of time, from creation. He refers to Jesus as the Word. Why did he use this label for Jesus? This is a reference to The Word of God or that the Jewish people would understand as being from God. He was referring to Jesus as being the Logos or reason itself. The source of all knowledge and understanding. 

Thus, Jesus knows it all. He knows the plan God has laid out for mankind. He was there in the beginning when God created everything. 

But wait...there is more. John goes on to tell us that through Jesus, all things were made and that nothing was made without Jesus. Then he goes on to putting the cause of life itself on Jesus. 

This leaves us with only one conclusion. Jesus is God.