A Paraphrase of John 1:1-18 by Evangelion on http://www.thechristadelphians.org
In the beginning, there was a pattern for everything.
The pattern was God’s; the pattern was divine.
The pattern was God’s from the beginning.
Everything that exists, came from that pattern. There is nothing that exists now, which did not first exist in the mind of God.
The pattern is both the source of new life and the meaning of life.
It is a way of being alive in opposition to death, and death cannot overcome it.
God sent a man named John to tell people about the possibilities of this way of being alive so that everybody would trust the agent of God, through whom this new life would come.
John was not this agent, but he taught people how to recognise the one who was.
The agent of new life was coming into the world.
To some people, however, this new life is unrecognisable.
Some who could be expected to see the possibilities of this way of being alive, select death instead. Others embrace life. They trust what God has to offer.
God made this offer to His entire creation. Its source is heavenly, not earthly.
God is not only the source, but also the meaning of life itself.
God’s divine pattern was embodied in a man who lived among us.
No man has seen God literally – but they have seen His only-begotten Son Jesus – the agent of new life, and the representative of God.
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