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Please then explain John 1, who the other person then?
You can't deny there's clearly two persons spoken of here. And that they're both equated as God, both simultaneously with one another.
How do you resolve this?
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Please then explain John 1, who the other person then?
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God.
You can't deny there's clearly two persons spoken of here. And that they're both equated as God, both simultaneously with one another.
How do you resolve this?
I am actually completely baffled as to how you resolve this. If as you say, there are 2 persons (assuming the word is a person). I understand you to be saying:
In the beginning was the son, and the son was with the Father and the son was the Father. This is the modalisim heresy.
The common understanding among translators is that the second word God does not refer to an identity, but a quality. Thus it should say:
In the beginning the word was with God, and the word was divine (or some other word reflecting that the son shared qualities with the father).
The next part of the verse to be discussed is "the beginning". Mark, Luke, Acts, and 1 John all put "the beginning" as John the Baptist baptizing Jesus. The point being that this is the beginning of the new creation (See NET bible notes for John 1:1).