Creation was not a thing apart from Christ. It had its origin in Christ. He is the beginning of Creation.
In John 1:1, John tells us that the God with Whom the Fathers and his people were acquainted through the Hebrew scriptures was the Logos or Word. God Himself is invisible. Adam did not see Him. Moses did not speak to Him. They saw and spoke to the Logos. So that the God of the Hebrews to whom John wrote was the Logos. Hence he says, not that “the Word was God,” but that “God (of your Scriptures) was the Word.”
It is not “God was the word” In the Original Writings, it is
en pros ton theon (the Logos)was toward the God John 1:1
G4314 pros a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. toward
What do the Holy Writings say about the Logos and the Son’s preexistence? All was in Him before creation, everything has its origin in the Alpha and Omega. He is the Firstborn of all creation, exalted above all in the celestial realm. Without Him was not anything made that was made. He was toward God in the beginning and the Way while on earth, pointing evermore towards the Father whose will He made His own.
What then is the Being of the Logos?