If according to the Jehovah Witnesses that "there was a time when God was alone," who was with God at John 1:1?

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The answer is in the article that you cite in your question.

Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that long before any angels were created, certainly long before and physical matter that makes up the universe was formed, Jehovah created Jesus. If you need to say this happened outside of space and time to understand it that is fine. It was if space and time began with the creation of the universe.

We can better understand John’s words here if we analyze exactly what he said. Notice again that he wrote:

In the beginning was the Word.”

This, of course, was not talking about God’s beginning, for God had no beginning. (Psalm 90:1, 2)

It was the beginning of the things John was here discussing, including the creation of all other things by “the Word.”

Then John said: “The Word was with God.” A person who is with someone obviously is not the same as the one he is with.

So at John 1:1 when Jehovah began creating the heavens and the earth the Word (Jesus) was with Him.

John 1:1 tells us that when the heavens and earth were created the Word was there with God.

Genesis 1:1 tells us that the heavens and earth were created before the earth was transformed into a place filled with flora and fauna, eventually culminating with God creating man in His image. Physical creation is what began at the beginning, The beginning is not the moment that Jehovah first brought forth His son.

Nor is the beginning of John and Genesis referring to the time when Jehovah through His son created the angelic hosts who were also on hand to applaud the creation of the heavens and the earth. Instead the beginning in John 1:1 and Genesis 1:1 is the creative act that brought the material universe into existence.

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