He was with God in the beginning. This short verse contains many truths. One is that the Word is a person. Secondly He was with God in the beginning. So He is in relationship with God, He is God, but has His own personhood. Ie He is part of the trinity.
People sometimes think that God created man so that He could have some company. This is simply not true. In the trinity there is one God but three persons. The three persons are in complete unity but are also distinct, and there was relationship between them, there was love between them. God did not create man so that He could love someone, rather we are a product of the love that eternally exists within the Godhead.
Unitarian religions (eg Islam, and unitarian sects of Christianity) have an enormous problem here. For where, under their understanding, does love come from?
The verse also highlights the eternal nature of Christ, as will be done again on several occasions in John. People sometimes give the idea that God chose Jesus to be the Christ, ie that Jesus was just a man and then God chose Him to be the Messiah. Such idle notions have no grounding in Scripture whatsoever.
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