John 1

In the beginning (the very beginning, the Genesis) there was Christ, who was the organizing principle of the universe, reality itself. And He was with God, and was God, but also wasn't, in some confusing ways that people have been disagreeing about for a long time, because it's both somehow. Regardless, everything's being and beginning came through him; nothing was created without him (so every person you meet and particle you breathe is touched by divinity, is stamped with His mark). What He made was life, all life, life now and the possibility for eternal life, and light, all light, physical light and metaphorical light. There was darkness too, but the darkness could not overcome the light. This is a dark story sometimes, so we're going to tell you that upfront. The light wins.

After and before this—after the creation of life now but before the sacrifice of eternal life, the creation of the Time of the Now—God sent a man named John to testify of the light, to be a conduit of it, and sometimes he shown so brightly people thought he was the light, but he wasn't, he was a witness and window to it. He came because the light was coming. 

The light and life and reality of the world came to His creations, but they did not know Him or accept Him, which meant they could not be transformed by Him. Everyone who knew their God claimed him, and because He had already claimed them by creating them, their recognition and claiming completed the circle, and they became the children of God, created again through Him (as we all must be, again and again). 

And then the light and life and reality became Jesus, became an embodied person who woke up in the morning and ate breakfast and usually walked places but sometimes just disappeared out of them, and He was here with us. We saw Him. We testify that He was the creator and the best of the created, that He was reality itself, that He made everything different and more than it was.