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Ignatius was no Trinitarian, he believed that the Son of God (Messiah) was an impersonal “THAT” which “took a beginning.” He described the Word (logos) as an impersonal “THAT which had been perfected in the councils of God” before it receiving “a beginning” as the child born and son given. The apostle John did the same in 1 John 1:1 when he opened his first epistle by saying, “THAT which was from the beginning” rather than “He who was from the beginning.” Therefore the Son is the man who is new, while the "God’ who “was manifested in the flesh” as a man" has always existed as the great I AM (John 8:58) before being manifested in the flesh as a human son.
Ignatius personally knew Peter, Paul, and John, and was an eyewitness to their teachings. Therefore the testimony of the earliest Christian witness proves that the logos in John 1:1 is not spoken of as a literal pre-incarnate distinct God the Son. For the child born and Son given who was conceived in the mind and thought (logos) of the Father before the foundation of the world, could not have literally existed as a Son before being “foreknown … before creation of the world” (1 Peter 1:20). Ignatius and the earliest Christians clearly taught that the God who became the child born and Son given is the same “Mighty God” and “Everlasting Father” of eternity past (Isaiah 9:6)!
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