'In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God' - what does that mean?

Answer 1

It means that in the beginning, as from Adam and Eve, the Gospel of Jesus Christ was preached; And the Gospel was the Word, meaning that the Word Jesus preached was of the Father, as Jesus did the will of the Father; And Jesus was sent by the Father, and He spoke for and in the name of the Father and He was one in mind, body and thought with God the Father. To put it simply: The Word, or the Truth was with Jesus Christ, and the authority and power of God to deliver the Truth was with Him also.

Answer 2

The Word is the Greek 'Logos' (best translated as 'reason', since it means more than just "a Word"). According to Philo, who was strongly influenced by Greek Platonism, Logos was God's son, a second god, through whom the world was created as a rational and ordered universe. Born of mother Wisdom and appearing in the world, the Logos was the agent through whom the great leaders of Israel learned what God expected of them.
The Logos, or Word, was absorbed into Christianity, becoming synonymous with Jesus, and "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God" is the opening verse of the Gospel of John. It is the only reference anywhere, of the Word or Logos appearing in human form.

Answer 3

That's a quote of John chapter 1, verse 1. To fully understand it we have continue reading:

"He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. [...] He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them Hegave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Wordbecame flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."

Clearly the Word is Jesus Christ. And if you also read Genesis 1 and put them together, you see that when God spoke the universe into being, it was through Jesus -- "The Beginning and The End".

Answer 4

This statement from The Bible, specifically from the Gospel of John, is often interpreted to mean that Jesus, referred to as the Word, existed from the beginning, was with God, and was divine. It conveys the idea of Jesus's pre-existence and divine nature as the Son of God.