John 1:1's 'Milta' (Miltha, or Logos) is Genesis 1:1's 'Beginning' -- Messiah Jesus' and Moses' Matching Theology
I do not know if I can explain this adequately. I suppose that anyone reading this is going to know that Jesus' mother tongue was Aramaic. Aramaic was very closely related to Hebrew, and the Jews converted to using Aramaic as their national language during their 70-year stay in Babylon. The Jews took it with them when they returned to Judea, so when Jesus and his family, his disciples and everyone else in his community spoke to each other, they naturally spoke in Aramaic. Jesus taught John in Aramaic. In the Aramaic version of John, John uses the term 'Milta' in reference to the pre-incarnate Christ. I have read speculation that it was John who coined the term Milta, but I believe that it was Jesus who taught the term to John.
The idea of the Milta is that the ineffable Most High spirit being has a comparable, more concrete and substantive manifestation this side of himself. You might think of this comparable being as the qualities and connotations of the Most High's essential nature, his affections, love, kindness, values, emotions, powers, concerns &c. being manifested in their fulness in another being "over there," although that other being is still actually him. The Most High would say of it, "I am that I am," and His Manifestation would say of Him, "I am that I am, too." And they are.
Yes, the idea is that there are two of God. The Most High is One in spite of existing in two forms. THAT is the world we are in, whether we like it or not. The first One is hidden, invisible, and unknowable; and the second is that same hidden One made visible, and knowable. The knowable Manifestation, the Milta, became apparent to us as Jesus. In Victor Alexander's translation of the Aramaic New Testament, footnotes incorporated, John 1:1-5 reads:
1. In the beginning [of creation] there was the Milta (the Manifestation, the essential connotation of Allaha, the Godhead); And that Milta (Manifestation) was with Allaha (the Godhead); and Allaha (the Godhead) was [the embodiment of] that Milta (Manifestation).
2. This (Manifestation, the Milta) was in the beginning with Allaha (the Godhead).
3. Everything was within his power ([in his] hand), [otherwise] nothing would ever exist (And without his hand, not one [thing that] became would have become).
4. Through him [there] was Life (life everlasting) and Life (life everlasting) became the spark (light) of humanity.
5. And that [ensuing] fire (light) lights the darkness and darkness does not overshadow it.
I think it important here to not see the Ineffable nor Its Manifestation as static noun units, but as powerful dynamic actions. Together they are an act, a movement. Jesus used the illustration of wind blowing wherever it will. Rabbi David A. Cooper explains this movement as the act of "beginningness" (1997. God is a Verb: Kabbalah and the practice of Mystical Judaism. New York: Riverhead Books. See p. 61-79). Existence is the dynamic movement of the Milta. The Milta is growing, maturing, becoming more fully like Its ineffable Father. OUR action is where He grows and expands, and the Ineffable is glorified.
Now to Moses and Genesis 1:1. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The verse is pretty well known, and refers to a point of time in the past, right? But Cooper (p. 66) suggests a Jewish Kabbalist could say, "With a beginning, [It] created God (Elohim), the heavens and the earth." With a beginning, an action, not at a point of time. Once there was a beginning, Cooper says, the Most High created a God to which the rest of creation could relate. And it is through that manifestation of God that the heavens and the earth are created. So the Milta is the One who CREATES the heavens and the earth. Says Victor Alexander's translation: "As the beginning, the Son of God creates the heavens and the earth. And the earth was for Him and by Him, and the darkness was over the face of infinite space, and the Spirit of God was over the layers of water" (Genesis 1:1-2 Alexander, emphasis mine).
The Milta is progressively building the Milta. The Milta, the Manifestation of God, is the beginning of--the firstborn of--creation. Everything comes into existence through its manifesting the Father. Everything is FOR the manifesting, but not everything is going to BE the manifesting. Somethings are necessary for facilitating the generation of the Milta.
John saw what Moses meant by brasheeth (Alexander's transliteration of the Aramaic) in Genesis 1. The Milta is the beginning movement of all creation AND is the destined End of the Most High's manifestation. It is the Firstborn of creation, the Messiah and the Savior, the Eternal Righteousness of the Father . . . manifested.
Here is an insightful lesson which has still another rendering of Genesis 1:1. Maybe the best. Which is that it was on account of the Milta, the Messiah, the Manifestation of the Most High that everything began: The FIRST WORD In the Bible... (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lOhhjfsNNBc)
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