2) Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3) And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

 

Does these passages simply mean that Jesus came to this world as a man, in the flesh, and only as a man? Or is there more to it than that?

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…

 

Who is this Word?

 

John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

 

29) The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. 30) This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

John bore witness of the Word. John said Jesus is the on of which he bore witness. Jesus is the Word.

 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

 

Jesus is the Word. The Word is God. Jesus is God.

 

2) Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ (God) is come in the flesh is of God: 3) And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ (God) is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.