John 1:1 begins with a stipulation of fact as a premise to what follows.
I can imagine a melody and bring it outside my imagination by singing it. How is that for a creative act?
The problem with semantics (words, grammar) is the intangible can pretend to be tangible.
"I hold her in my heart as most dear above all else." That is poetic but does violence to reality.
In the beginning . . . (is this a classification without any context? A generality?)
was the Word . . . (is it the Greek idea of Sophia? A spoken sound in the vacuum of space?)
and the Word was with God ("with" as additionally or subsumed by?) (God as in merely "numinous"?)
and the Word was god. (As in a divine family? A Russian kachinka doll? A unit without division?)
The great problem with all scripture is the magisterium CANNOT be simultaneously: Scientific, mathematical, poetic, epic, historical, ritualistic and MAKE FACTUAL SENSE.