In case it was not abundantly clear before, this is how I understand the Father and Son, which straightens out the scriptures.
In beginning was the word and the word was with the God and the word was God, or and God was the word.
In beginning the word (God's eternal living word, which came forth out of God's mouth, which would become the flesh/body of Jesus, real flesh/body, but not made of the earth, but from heaven) was with God (the Father person, who was the only person at this time. God's word is living, but not another person, at this time, anyway) before God created anything. Jesus was not known, but foreknown before the foundations of the world, as both verses speak in Isa 45:4, 5 "though thou hast not known me" showing that Jesus (the person) did not know God at this time (not referring to the "spirit" of Christ, thought, just the person who would be born man).
So, Jesus existed in the form of God. God spoke, His word went forth, which is still in the form of God, for whatever is before creation is God.
It was God and His spoke word that was with Him. Your word can be with you (I will explain more if someone is in need. What I do have an issue with, though, are those who by trying to correcting others, make themselves out to be teachers, but play the arrogant narcissist, evil men, who cannot back up there words, but make it look as if others are crazy, denying them of their due justice).
Here, I'll explain anyway for some help. When your word goes forth from your mouth and hits a mountain, then after a few seconds, after it returns, you hear it in your own ear. God's word is eternal, and God is not in bodily form, but is spirit (invisible light, as invisible air. And wind is His word/breath/spirit. Air and wind: same, but different).
God created everything by His spoken word. Which word became the flesh/body of Jesus, that produced the person Jesus, that grew in wisdom.
That spoken word, which created all things, is the flesh/body of Jesus. This is how it is spoken, that "All things were made through him," and "without him was not anything made that hath been made," because Jesus is the spoken word that God the Father used to create all things.
So, in beginning was the only true God the Father, who is one person, Jesus became a person when he became man. There is only one true God the Father, because Jesus was born man! Yet, equal to God, because He truly is God's own only truly begotten son. He came forth out of God, equal to God.
Jesus and the Father are two persons. John was born with a measure of the spirit, Jesus was born with no limits of the spirit, because He was (and is) the spirit of God. A word is breath, a word is wind, a word is spirit (and life).
Jesus is not another God, or god, for He was born man! Man, in God's flesh and blood, and that is Christ's flesh, for all eternity. The only flesh that can enter heaven ("Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father"), cause it was not made of the earth.
In this way Jesus was before all, created all, in all (Gen 2:7; Jn 1:4,9). What did the invisible God do, without His word? God's word is the invisible God's image.
I was trying to avoid adding scripture, for those teachers that should know them by the words that I speak, and I have provided some scripture already, but if anyone wants the scriptures that backs these things up, I will provide (though, I do have to say, "God willing," of course).
