Question 2
The Correct Answer Is: FALSE
John 1:1: "1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Philippians 2:5-11: "5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
When John opens his Gospel the same way as Genesis, he is trying to point his readers back to that book and connect 'The Word' (who he identifies as Jesus), with the next word after 'in the beginning' in Genesis 1:1, which is 'God'. In fact, the entire Gospel of John is meant to show that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that belief in that will lead to salvation in his name. But belief in Jesus as God is not only found in the Gospels, it is found in the epistles of Paul. Paul says that Jesus is equal with God the Father, which would only be true if Jesus is God Himself. If Jesus was a man, or an angel or any other created being, he would not be equal with God, and so considering himself to be equal with God, if in fact he wasn't, would be robbing God of His glory and honor. The necessary conclusion that needs to be drawn from this, is that Jesus is God, but because mankind needed saving, he humbled Himself, by leaving Heaven and taking the form of a mortal man, capable of dying for the sins of mankind. Jesus did not cease from being God when he did so, but he did leave Heaven so we could be saved.