2nd Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so shall you prosper.
The Bible teaches us to believe His prophets, which means that when God speaks through His anointed servant we are to listen. Thus, the servant of Christ sheds great light on the subject matter in question, so as to leave no room for doubt and sophistries. It is written first and foremost in the Scriptures, and then it is confirmed by The Holy Spirit through God’s ordained prophet, so that in the mouth of two or 3 witnesses, every word may be established.
[Maranatha pp 302] “In him [Christ] was life; and the life was the light of men.” It is not physical life that is here specified, but immortality, the life which is exclusively the property of God. The Word, who was with God, and who was God, had this life. Physical life is something which each individual receives. It is not eternal or immortal; for God, the Life-giver, takes it again. But the life of Christ was unborrowed.
No one can take this life from Him. “I lay it down of myself,” He said. In Him was life, original, unborrowed, underived. This life is not inherent in man. He can possess it only through Christ. Even Claude and Gemini understand what the word underived means, for simply put it means that Jesus did not get His eternal life from anywhere, nor from anyone. It was original and not given to Him by God the Father.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!