Why Jesus Did Not Pre-Exist
A person cannot pre-exist himself and still be the same person!
Jesus Was Never an Archangel - an archangel is a chief angel not a different creature.
- Heb. 1:5 and 13: To which of the angels did God ever say, ‘You are my Son’.
- Dan. 10:13: Michael, one of the foremost (Gk arche = chief) princes.
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Jesus Was Not the Creator of the Universe
- Isa. 44:24: I am Yahweh who made everything. I stretched out the heavens by myself. Who was with me? ... “with my own hands” in 45:12 and 48:13. Also, Job 9:8 and 38:4, 7.
- Mark 13:19: The creation which God created.
- Matt. 19:4: He who created them from the beginning.
- Acts 17:24: The God who made the world and everything in it.
- Gen. 2:3: God has been resting from all the work he has created.
- Jesus is head of the New Creation: Col. 1:17; Heb. 1:10-12; Rev. 3:14.
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Jesus Came into Existence in Mary – The Greek word genesis means “point of origin/coming into being at a specific moment” and gennao means “to be brought into existence” Bauer’s Greek-English Lexicon.
- Luke 1:35: Holy spirit/power will overshadow you. Precisely for this reason the child being brought into existence (gennoomenon)...will be called God’s son.
- Matt. 1:18: the origin (genesis) of Jesus was this way:.
- Matt. 1:20: the child fathered (gennethen) in her is by holy spirit.
- Gal. 4:4: His son having come into existence (genomenon)...from a woman.
- Acts 3:22: Raised up a prophet like [Moses] from among his brothers.
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No Pre-Existence in the History of Jesus
- Luke 1:3, 4: traced all things from the beginning accurately – orderly.
- Heb. 1:1-2: Now at the end of these days he has spoken to us by means of a son.
- Acts 3:26: God having raised up His servant, sent him to you.
- John 16:25: These things I have spoken to you in figurative language.
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Notional and Ideal (Conceptual) Pre-existence
- Rom. 4:17: calls things which do not yet exist as though they already exist.
- Rev. 13:8: the lamb slaughtered from the foundation of the world.
- 1 Pet. 1:20: [Jesus] was foreknown before the foundation of the world.
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