“IN THE BEGINNING WAS the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Go as far back in eternity as we will, before ever was a creature, angelic or human, in all the universe of God, we are told “the Word WAS.” It never began to be, for “the Word was God” —the Eternal.
“IN THE BEGINNING, God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). Now we have divine power speaking worlds into being by the fiat of His will. “He spake and it was done, He commanded and it stood fast.” That which was “FROM THE BEGINNING” (1 John 1:1), as explained by the writer himself (John 15:27 John 6), takes us no further back than the incarnation of the blessed Son of God. “The Word became flesh and tabernacled amongst us, and we contemplated his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth”!
Thus all scripture is in divine harmony with itself, and calls for our subjection to it, that we may believe and thus understand.