John 1:1 — "The Word Was God"

Independent Fundamental Churches affirm the traditional Protestant reading of John 1:1 that the Word (Jesus Christ) is God—coequal, coeternal, and consubstantial with God the Father. This is foundational to their Trinitarian Christology and their commitment to classical, orthodox Christianity as preserved in the King James translation.

The passage is read without the modernist questioning of liberal scholarship. KJV-preferring Independent Fundamental churches trust the received biblical text and affirm that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became incarnate for our redemption. This doctrine is essential to their evangelical soteriology.