In the beginning was the Word . . .

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Did God actually 'become' or was he already?

Well, what I usually hear is that god was already, existing forever without beginning. Of course then theists insist that the universe couldn't have existed forever, that it must have had a beginning, and a beginning must have a creator. But the creator himself.... on no, that just works out by itself, nobody had to create him.