To understand creation, we need to know the cause of all things, which comes before every effect. John begins his gospel with God and shows that Christ is the Word. Everything created is made by his word and all elements function in a cycle. The cause of this cycle is both the beginning and the end. Everything comes from, through and to God, who himself has no beginning.
Humans and animals have basic needs such as love, security and freedom that go beyond the physical. This means that non-physical channels - spirits - must also exist. And if everything came into being through God's word, a spirit had to exist before creation. Light comes into being through the word of God. He creates all living beings, plants and humans through his word. Unlike God, a creature cannot create life. Nor can it destroy it, unless God allows it. As a channel, it is limited to implementing only what is already there. Nevertheless, man tries and plays God with it.
The light and the darkness in man are inside his spirit. Life is in the light and death and inexistence reign in the darkness. Darkness describes the human condition. Jesus brings light and life as well as the truth about ourselves. We live in a state of self-deception and falsely believe that we are God. Since Adam's self-deception, man has no longer lived in the light. All people are trapped in darkness and blind to themselves and in a state of death. We exist by grace alone. The true light that enlightens all people is Jesus Christ and those who come to life through him leave the darkness.
Jesus created the world and came into it as Creator, but the world did not recognize him. He came into his own, but his own did not receive him (John 1:10-11). Examples such as “Blind Nicodemus”, “The blind Samaritan woman” or “The blind man at Bethesda” illustrate this. Jesus came not only for the physically blind, but also for the spiritually blind. It is not our fault that we were born blind, but we have the choice to come out of this state and step into the light. What this means in detail is dealt with in the second part of the series “Jesus in the Gospel of John”.