About the only true God (John 17:3) (part 1)

 About the only true God (John 17:3)

1. According to the Bible, it is very clear that there is only one God, the Father. Our Lord Jesus did not know this otherwise, as we read:
"And eternal life is to know you, the only true God, and the one you sent, Jesus Christ." (John 17:3)
But as we can see, next to God the Father, it is very important to get to know "Someone": His Messenger.
Well, the apostle John focused on this at the end of his life, when he edited the account of the Gospel named after him. It was very important for this, because at that time dangerous sects reared their heads among established Christianity: some completely rejected The Old Testament books as the Word of God, and others were very selective and only took from it what they liked (and they also presented it incorrectly ). Some of them did not even realize that the Apostle John published the Gospel precisely because of their view, in such a way that they would understand who Jesus was before he came to earth. After the Gospel was completed, these extreme and unfaithful elements conspired to make a single one out of the four Gospels, except for the parts showing the Jewish origin of Jesus and presented it as the Gospel of the Jews (and this was their dangerous and fabricated gospel). Scholars dealing with biblical texts have also noticed that there are several versions of the Gospel of John, which indicates that changes have been made to the original text precisely at the hands of these extremist elements.
The apostle warns of these:
"He who steps aside and does not abide by the doctrine of Christ has no God. He who abides by the doctrine of Christ, both the Father and the Son belong to him." (2 John 1:9)
The original text of John 1:1-3 cannot be understood by separating it from the Bible, and moreover the Old Testament cannot be ignored, since the beginning of the Gospel of John reflects one of the main sayings of the Old Testament: The Creator was with "Somebody" there, and the apostle John give us this information about who this "Someone" was.
Let's see some texts referring to this:
"And God said: Let us create man in our image and likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every kind of animal that creeps on the earth.” (Genesis 1:26)
"Well, let us get down there and confuse the languages ​​so that they don't understand each other's speech." (Genesis 11:7)
As we can see, these verses are written in the plural. The Jewish rabbis say that in these God spoke to his angels, but according to the apostle John, God spoke to his only-begotten Son. According to one foreign author who lived in the Middle Ages, the text of John 1:1 was changed.
Well, how was the original text?
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Son of God was the Word. It was with God in the beginning. Everything came to be through him and without him nothing came to be, what we came to be." (John 1:1-3)
In the same way they treated the text of John 1:18, replacing the word Son with the word God: "No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
However, in the original it said:
"No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him."
Why did some people take up this insidious job? At that time, all Jews had to pay a fine for the free practice of their religion. Since at that time there were huge Jewish uprisings due to the introduction of this monetary fine in the Roman Empire, the Roman Chancellery considered the Old Testament of the Jews as the subject, responsible for exploding them. Therefore, during the time of Emperor Hadrian (Roman emperor from 117 to 138 as a member of the Antoninus dynasty), the entire Jewish religion was banned (due to the Bar Kokba rebellion, which lasted from 132 to 136) and the books of the Old Testament were burned and its readers were punished with a bitter death (e.g. death at the stake). Everyone had to deliver these books and anyone who knew someone else was reading them had to report them to the authorities. Those who did not do this and were found out, were similarly severely punished, caned to death or sold as slaves (and young Jewish women were sent to brothels as slaves).
Well, in these tragic developments, certain Christians, fearing that they too would be affected by the financial burden, seeing them as Jews, distanced themselves from everything that could be seen as Jewish and introduced an anti-Jewish sect, proclaiming Jesus as the Good God and the God of the Jews as the Evil God, sparking a huge religious debate inside the Christianity.