Did Jesus Christ exist before his birth on Earth?

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It seems that most who call themselves Christian belong to one of two camps. Jesus is either God or a mere created man. This debate has been raging since the days of Athanasius of Alexandria and Arius.

What the does the Bible say? Well it is quite clear on who Jesus is and his origin. Let’s take a look at what is written.

Scripture says the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and when Jesus returns, his name is called ‘The Word of God’.  (John 1 & Revelation 19:13)

It says that God created all things through THE WORD and nothing was created without him. (John 1:3)

It says that the universe was created through THE SON and he is before all things. (Colossians 1:15-17)

It says that all things were created through JESUS CHRIST. (Hebrews 2:9)

This is what the Bible says about Jesus Christ, the son of the living God, the one named: ‘The Word of God’ who was with God in the beginning.

He emptied himself, took upon himself our nature, was obedient to his God and our God, died for our sins as it is written, and is now in the glory he had with the Father before the cosmos.

Jesus is not God in the flesh, rather the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us. He was with God in the beginning. He was the first to be with God.

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  • #870038
    Lightenup
    Participant

    Gene,

    You say:

    Lu……Yes i would , but there are so many that say the opposite, even Jesus’ very own words he said himself.

    There is nothing that says the opposite if you understand scriptures properly.

    Have a great day,

    LU

    #870040
    carmel
    Participant

    Hi Gene,

    YOU:Danny…..Carmel was not talking about what we “need” to be saved,  he was saying that there is no God the Father without Jesus.

    That simply is not true, God the Father always existed, Jesus did not always exist. 

    ME: Read again what I posted:

    John14:11 Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? 

    12Otherwise believe for

    the very works’ sake.

    Now since Jody remained SILENT! IF YOU HAVE THE GUTS TO PRONOUNCE THE TRUTH

    ANSWER, WHO DID THE WORKS Gene?

    THE FATHER? 

    THE SON? OR

    BOTH THE FATHER AND THE SON?

    NO FATHER NO JESUS
    NO JESUS NO FATHER!

    According to Jesus above,

    Gene, IF YOU DONT WANT TO BELIEVE THAT

    ETERNALLY 

    JESUS IS IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IS IN JESUS, BELIEVE 

    IN THE WORKS SAKE! 

    THAT STATEMENT BY JESUS MEANS THAT

    ALL THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY JESUS ON THIS PLANET, IS A PROOF OF HIS 

    PRE-EXISTENCE!

    IN THE ONENESS OF GOD!

    THE FATHER IS ETERNAL and since the Father is eternal

    THE SON established  THE ETERNAL FATHER!

    HOW ON EARTH THE FATHER IS

    ETERNALLY FATHER WITHOUT HIS SON!

    You, Gene, were not A FATHER WHEN YOU WERE BORN, you became A FATHER when your wife gave you your first child, your child established you

    A FATHER!

    HENCE JESUS ESTABLISHED THE FATHER,

    A FATHER! THUS IF

    THE FATHER IS ETERNAL,

    THE ETERNAL FATHER;

    JESUS ESTABLISHED ETERNALLY THE FATHER!

    NO FATHER NO SON, NO SON NO FATHER!

    SIMPLY, AS THEY ARE ETERNALLY ONE SUBSTANCE HEBREWS 1:3, AND IN THE SAME TIME 

    DISTINCT: THE FATHER AND THE SON!

    ON HIS OWN THE FATHER ACCOMPLISHED 

    NOTHING  absolutely

    NOTHING!

    THE FACT THAT WE READ IN

    John 1:1 IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

    The fact that Jesus established the Father on earth! Well clear in

    Matthew 6:9 Thus therefore shall you pray:

    OUR FATHER who art in heaven,……

    John17:4I have glorified thee on the earth;

    I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 

    5And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself,

    with the glory which I had,

    before the world was, with thee.

    6 I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world.

    Thine they were, and to me thou gavest them; and they have kept thy word. 7Now they have known, that all things which thou hast given me, are from thee: 8Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known in very deed

    that I came out from thee,

    and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me:

    because they are thine:

    10And all my (HUMAN) things are thine, (the oneness and equality of the Father and the Son AS A HUMAN )

    and thine (SPIRITUAL) are mine;(the oneness and equality of the Father and the Son AS ONE GOD )

    and I am glorified in them.

    BOTH SPIRIT AND HUMAN

    GODMAN

    JESUS CHRIST 1John5:20

     

    Peace and love in Jesus Christ

     

    #870044
    carmel
    Participant

    Hi Gene,

    In continuation to my last post I want to add what’s hereunder regarding

    THE ETERNAL EQUALITY, ONENESS, AND HARMONY  BETWEEN THE FATHER AND JESUS:

     John5:17 But Jesus answered them:

    My Father worketh until now; and I work.

    John15:21 But all these things they will do to you

    for my name’s sake:

    THE FATHER’S NAME’S SAKE, Well clear hereunder

    because they know not HIM (THE FATHER)

    who sent me. 

    NOW WHAT IS JESUS’ NAME SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING Gene:

    THE WORD OF GOD! 

    AS CLEAR AS CRYSTAL Gene,

    THE EQUALITY, ONENESS, AND HARMONY  BETWEEN THE FATHER AND THE SON! KEEP ON READING!

    22If I had not come, and spoken to them,

    THE FATHER Gene, COULD NEVER COME IN ANY WAY TO BE KNOWN AND ACCEPTED ON EARTH!

    NEVER MIND THE TRUE GOD ON EARTH! Continue reading:

     they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

    23He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.

    24If I had not done among them the works

    that no other man hath done,

    they would not have sin;

    JESUS IS UNIQUE; ONE OF A KIND!

    BOTH THE FATHER AND THE SON IN ONE  DIVINE FLESH BODY! 

    ONE SUBSTANCE AND DISTINCT IN ONE INSTANT

    MORTAL AND IMMORTAL IN ONE INSTANT!

    but now they have both seen and

    hated both me and my Father.

    THEY CRUCIFIED BOTH JESUS AND THE FATHER!

    NO FATHER NO JESUS

    NO JESUS NO FATHER

    25But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law:

    They hated me without cause.

    26But when the Paraclete cometh,

    whom I WILL SEND  you from the Father,

    the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father,

    he shall give testimony of me.

    THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH Gene,

    GIVES TESTIMONY BOTH OF

    JESUS AS A HUMAN AND THE FATHER AS SPIRIT IN

    JESUS CHRIST 

    GODMAN ON EARTH  1John 5:20

    27And you shall give testimony,

    because you ARE with me from THE BEGINNING.

    EVEN BEFORE THE WORLD WAS!

    THE APOSTLES Gene, believe it or not,

    ARE OF THE LOYAL HEAVENLY REALMS OF ANGELS WHO ACCEPTED 

    “THE WORD” JESUS, THE SON OF MAN IN THEIR HEARTS AND NEVER JOINED LUCIFER WHO REJECTED JESUS, IN A WAY HIS BROTHER, THE MORNING STAR,

    THE PRIMORDIAL LIGHT FROM HIS HEART, HIS LIFE SOURCE!  Well asserted by Jesus in

    John 17:6 I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me (BEFORE THE WORLD WAS) out of the world. (FROM HEAVEN) 

    Thine they were, (ANGELS) and to me thou gavest them; (HUMANS)

    and they have kept thy word. (JESUS in their heart as”THE WORD” of God, and never rebelled.)

    7Now they have known, that all things which thou HAST GIVEN me, (JESUS’ pre-existence)

    are from thee: 

    8Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them;

    and they have received them, and have known in very deed that

    I came out from thee,

    and they have believed that thou didst send me.

     

    NO FATHER NO JESUS
    NO JESUS NO FATHER

    Peace and love in Jesus Christ

     

    #870048
    GeneBalthrop
    Participant

    Carmel….my , my, how you spin your web of deceit,  adding words , taking away words , half truths, .

    You make it out that “only ” Jesus cohabits with the Father in him,  as if that is exclusive  and non else have that. . fact the very same condition exists with all who have the Fathers Spirit “in” them.   Or haven’t you ever read where Paul said , “know you not ?, that you body is the temple of the living God. So there go another of your deception shot down,  I could give you man scriptures that back that up, heres another for you,  “that God may be “in” ALL and  “through “. ALL. 

    MANY MORE, no time right now, sufficient to say ,  your false conclusions do not  fit the truth found in our scriptures as far as i can tell. Your preaching your “church indoctrinations” ,  not the truth written in our scriptures. IMO

    peace and love to you and yours……..gene

    #870051
    carmel
    Participant

    Hi Gene,

    YOU: John 10:29,  ” my Father which gave them me,

    is “GREATER” than “ALL”. , AND NO MAN is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand.

    ME: Now the above is the scripture you posted!

    Herunder is what you said in order to justify your understanding:

    YOU: Anyone who reads John 10: 28-29…..and doesn’t know Jesus was SAYING,  God the Father is “GREATER” greater the him is, completely ignorant of scriptural truth. IMO

    ME: Now read the scripture  you posted again, hereunder, and explain how did you conclude that

    somehow it  says

    the Father is greater than Jesus?

    my Father which gave THEM ME, is “GREATER” than “ALL”.

    Who are “ALL” for you Gene?

     Peace and love in Jesus Christ

    #870053
    carmel
    Participant

    Hi Gene,

    YOU: You make it out that

    “only ” Jesus cohabits with the Father in him,  

    ME: PURE LIE!

    YOU: as if that is exclusive and non else have that. 

    ME: PURE LIE!

    YOU: fact the very same condition exists with all who have the Father’s Spirit “in” them.  

    ME: PURE LIE DUE TO THE FACT THAT YOU LACK AWARENESS OF JESUS’SPIRITUAL TASK AS

    “THE WORD” MADE FLESH, JESUS, THE SON OF MAN!

    WHICH ALSO CONTRADICTS YOUR OWN BELIEF, WHEN YOU PROCLAIM THAT JESUS IS

    THE ONLY MAN AND ONE UNIQUE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MEN!!! 

    YOU: Or haven’t you ever read where Paul said , “know you not ?, that your body is the temple of the living God.

    PURE MISUNDERSTANDING WHEN YOU REFER TO GOD’S WORK AND PROCESSES REGARDING

    “THE WORD” MADE FLESH, JESUS’HUMANITY  AS 

    THE HOUSE OF GOD! John 14:1! John2:16-22

    YOU: So there go another of your deception shot down,  

    ME: HOW ON EARTH MY DECEPTION IS SHOT DOWN, WHILE

    YOU NEVER PRODUCED ONE WORD FROM MY POST TO JUSTIFY YOUR CONCLUSIONS!

    I could give you man scriptures that back that up, heres another for you,  

    “that God may be “in” ALL and  “through “. ALL. 

    ME: AGAIN YOUR UNDERSTANDINGS ARE TOTALLY 

    CARNALLY MINDED!

    EXPLAIN SPECIFICALLY  AND PRODUCE SCRIPTURE, HOW GOD MAY BE IN ALL AND THROUGH ALL!

    APART OF THE LAST DAY OF THE LORD!

     

    NOW Gene, WHERE IS SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED IN MY POST WHAT YOU CORRUPTEDLY,

    SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU ARE CARNALLY MINDED ONLY  IN YOUR  CORRUPTED BELIEF  OF JESUS’HUMANITY,

    PERCEIVED AND DECLARED  THE ABOVE LIES!

    BE HONEST AND SPECIFICALLY CUT AND PASTE WHAT I POSTED IN ORDER FOR ME TO MAKE CLEAR FOR YOU, WHAT YOU SIMPLY CAN NEVER BE AWARE OF REGARDING 

    JESUS’DEITY

    DO THAT Gene PLEASE!

    IN THE MEANTIME MINE STANDS AS TRUTH I’M AFRAID!

     

     

    #870063
    Ed J
    Participant

    I will say that the Father ALWAYS needed HIS SINGLE BEGOTTEN SON
    : FOR THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE

    Amen Berean!

    #870064
    Berean
    Participant

    Yes Edj, but not only the creation ….
    FOR REDEMPTION
    AND JUDGMENT ALSO

     

    But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: (1 Cor. 1:30)

    And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. (John 5:27)

    #870065
    Berean
    Participant

    God bless all

     

    #870067
    GeneBalthrop
    Participant

    Carmel…… I simply quote what is clearly written in our bible, and you call that  Carnal, while you add your own unbiblical interpretations and have the gall to say i am carnal minded, what a joke that is.  Now , you even denying Jesus’ humanity, you truly are a joke at best, may God help you, Carmel.

    peace and love to you and yours……..gene

     

    #870070
    Berean
    Participant

    Gene

    Now , you even denying Jesus’ humanity,

    Don’t you think you’re exaggerating here?

    #870075
    carmel
    Participant

    Hi Gene,

    YOU: Carmel…… I simply quote what is clearly written in our bible, and you call that  Carnal,

    ME: PURE LIES

    YOU: while you add your own unbiblical interpretations and have the gall to say i am carnal minded, what a joke that is.

    PROVE IT  Gene please for God’s sake! 

    Now , you even denying Jesus’ humanity,

    AGAIN PURE LIES! HOW ON EARTH I COULD DENY JESUS’ HUMANITY AND IN THE SAME TIME DECLARING WHAT IS WRITTEN IN

    1John5:20 THAT JESUS IS

    BOTH GOD and MAN!

    MANIFESTING THE TRUE GOD ON EARTH!

    SCRIPTURE NEVER CALLED THE FATHER 

    THE ONLY TRUE GOD except 

    IN JESUS, and BY JESUS!

    YOU: you truly are a joke at best, may God help you, Carmel.

    ME: with your own writing above YOU SIMPLY CONFIRMED THAT YOU ARE NOT ONLY 

    CARNALLY MINDED BUT ALSO AS JESUS SAID  YOU ARE STILL

    DEAD SPIRITUALLY.

    AS USUAL, YOU NEVER PRODUCED A WORD FROM MY POST TO CONTRADICT ME SPECIFICALLY USING SCRIPTURE BY WHICH ACT, WITH EVERY RESPECT;

    YOU SIMPLY CONFIRMED THAT 

    YOU ARE STILL SUBJECT TO YOUR FLESH AND YOUR

    CARNAL MIND  IS IN FULL GLORY!

    Nevertheless, I ALWAYS PRAY JESUS FOR YOU! 

    HE IS HUMAN not THE FATHER! In a way!!!

    John14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask

    in my name,

    that will I do,

    that the Father may be glorified

    in the Son.

    14If ye shall ask any thing in my name,

    I will do it.

    Peace and love in Jesus Christ

     

    #870078
    GeneBalthrop
    Participant

    Carmel,  Jesus said the God was the “ONLY” true GOD”,  NOT ME, I just believe him, obviously you don’t honestly believe him. Trying to twist what i say is exactly wha you do with what Jesus And so many other scripture also say. 

    Carmel, a novice should not be a teacher, not only are you corrupt in your teachings , but-think of  all the other people you corrupt also. I really hope you are not in a position that allows you to teach those things.  Repent Carmel

    peace and love to you and yours and……..gene

     

    #870080
    Danny Dabbs
    Participant

    To all,

    God raised Jesus from the dead!
    Jesus is Alive!

    Acts 10:40 God raised him up the third day and gave him
    to be revealed,

    God bless all,

    Danny

    #870081
    mikeboll64
    Blocked

    LU:  The Father identified someone OTHER THAN HIMSELF in Hebrews 1 as the LORD who:

    “You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth…

    Look at how Hebrews 1 begins…

    1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he created the world.

    Who spoke in the past?  God.  The ones through whom God spoke were not God. Who spoke in the latter days?  God.  The one through whom God spoke was not God.  Who created the world?  God.  The one through whom God created the world was not God.

    Look at verse 4…

    …having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

    Do you really imagine that there was a time when God became superior to the angels by inheriting a better name than theirs?  Up until that time, God was equal to or lesser than the angels? 🤔

    Follow the subject of the passage…

    1In the past God spoke…    God spoke.

    5For to which of the angels did God ever say…    God said.

    6And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says…    God said.

    7In speaking of the angels he says…    God said.

    8But about the Son he says…    God said.

    10In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth…    God created.

    13To which of the angels did God ever say…    God said.

     

    God is the subject throughout.  I can see how people link verse 10 to verse 8, and see it as a continuation of things God was saying about the Son, but the writer doesn’t explicitly say that the words in verse 10 are something God is saying about His Son, right?  He does in the previous and following verses, but not in verse 10.  So we’re left to our own interpretation.  At least four things help interpret the meaning for me…

    1.  In verses 1 and 2, the writer seems pretty clear that the God who spoke/created and the ones through whom God spoke/created are different entities.  The words “through whom HE created” seem explicit.
    2.   The quote is of Psalm 102 – which is a lamentation to YHWH.  There is no indication that the psalmist had secret knowledge about some “Unity of YHVH”, yet used singular pronouns and verbs to describe this unity.  You could claim (without any evidence) that the psalmist was making his lamentation to “YHVH the Son”, but then that would make the Son the sole creator of the heavens and the earth, leaving the Father out of it.
    3.   Verses 1 and 2  align perfectly with the prayer in Acts 4, Colossians 1:16, John 1:3 and 1:10, and 1 Cor 8:6 – all of which distinguish the God who created from the one through whom God created.
    4.   Jesus himself tells us that God is the one who created. (Mark 10:6, 13:19; Rev 3:14)

    You are welcome to your own interpretation, but yours directly contradicts many other scriptures like the prayer in Acts, where there is ZERO doubt that the Apostles knew the difference between the Lord who created the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in them… and His holy servant Jesus.  Jesus knows the difference too…

    Mark 13:19

    because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now–and never to be equaled again.

    Jesus said those words, Kathi.

    #870082
    mikeboll64
    Blocked

    Mike: Ed, is it possible that this “light” that came into the world was Jesus?

    Ed:  Of course MIke!

    “And he (YeHoVaH) said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee (Jesus) for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.” (Isaiah 49:6)

    What a great scripture to add to the ones I posted!  So then we agree that the light who was with God in the beginning and then came into the world and was testified about by John the Baptizer was the one the Apostles knew as Jesus from Nazareth?

    #870084
    mikeboll64
    Blocked

    Berean: Additionally , Stephen PRAYED DIRECTLY TO CHRIST.

    Yes, as the mediator/priest God set up between Himself and mankind, we can certainly call on Jesus.  He even told his disciples to ask for anything in his name, and it will be given, right?

    But what did Stephen see when he looked up to heaven?

    Acts 7

    55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56 “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”

    Berean, why could Stephen actually see Jesus – but only the glory of God?  Because no man has ever seen God. (John 1:18, 1 John 4:12. *Keep in mind John wrote these AFTER he had seen Jesus with his own eyes and touched him with his own hands.)  So what does it tell us that Stephen was able to see the person of Jesus, but NOT the person of God?

    Also notice that Stephen clearly distinguished Jesus FROM God by identifying him as one who sat at the right hand OF God.

    #870086
    mikeboll64
    Blocked

    Berean: A ONLY HUMAN mediator who does not hear prayers cannot BE A TRUE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN …

    I know Jesus is no longer human, so no argument from me on that one.  But the actual definition of mediator is one who acts as a go-between for more than one person or group.  For Jesus to present any of our prayers to God and make request on our behalf, Jesus must be able to hear our prayers, right?  That doesn’t mean he is God.  In fact, being the mediator/priest OF God pretty clearly distinguishes him as someone other than God, don’t you think?

    #870087
    mikeboll64
    Blocked

    LU: Gene,

    If you knew for sure that these words were said about the Son, would your doctrine change?

    Psalm 102

    24I say, “O my God (the Son), do not take me away in the midst of my days,
    Your years (the Son’ years) are throughout all generations…

    Do YOU know for sure that they were said about the Son?  If not, then your question is moot and requires Gene to answer a hypothetical that has no basis in scripture.

    #870088
    GeneBalthrop
    Participant

    Mike…..VERY GOOD POST, brother.  If only all come to see and understand that.

    peace and love to you and yours………..gene

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