[count-your-change]

It's not John who creates the “problem”, if it be such, for the church but those that attempt to force that square peg of “ if Christ is God, and God is one, then the Word is co-equal to and co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit” into the round opening of John's writing.

[kosta50]

It's not John who creates the “problem”, if it be such, for the church but those that attempt to force that square peg of “ if Christ is God, and God is one, then the Word is co-equal to and co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit” into the round opening of John's writing.

Let's just say that it complicated the matter. At the time John wrote, it was absolutely essential that Christianity, having been rejected as Judaism, and thrown out of Israel, establish a divine authority of its own. The Hellenization of Jesus accomplished that but it also created an ontological nightmare.