John 1:1 doesn’t say ‘the Word was God’, although that is how it gets translated. The original says ‘the Word was with God and God was the Word’. The divinity of God was that word which was with God. Everything God was, the Word was. Now, that Word has become flesh and instead of saying everything the God was, the Word was, we can say God is with Jesus and now Jesus is with God. The flesh and bone body of Jesus leads to a change of emphasis. Yes, Jesus is still that Word, the Word of God, but Jesus says to His followers, ‘this God who is my Father, He is your Father too. My God and your God. My Father and your Father.’ And this human Jesus, forever alive from the dead having provided purification for sin by His sacrificial death on the cross, now mediates for us humans with God.
