 He's always been and He always will be. Not only is He the eternal Word, He's the creative Word. In verse 3 it says, "...all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made." Jesus Christ is a creative Word. Verse 1 says He was God. So we can go back to Genesis 1, verse 1. It says, "...in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." And so if He was God...