"In the beginning there was the word" must have been the inspiration for Nietzsche's title "Thus spoke Zarathustra". In modern history, Zarathustra is the starting point of seeing God as 1.
Prior to Zarathustra the word God can be identified as 2.
Thus, that is really expressing the later mindset of the Western World as it developed away from its roots toward this Middle-Eastern new idea of seeing God as 1, several thousand years ago.
'Two'
