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of the Spirit Father.
Trinitarians have no scriptural support to say the Son pre-existed as an independent separate person in the name of God the Son; but they can say the Word of God has pre-existence as stated in John 1:1-14. It is biblical to say Jesus pre-existed as God the Word and Spirit (Psalm 33:6). Jesus Christ Himself said in John 8:58, "Before Abraham was, I am." Since Christ is the Word of Cod made flesh. He cannot be the natural son of Abraham. This verse gives reference to the preexistence of Jesus as the creator of the world
and the Cod of the Old Testament.
In John 6:62 when He said, "What and if you shall see the Son of man ascend up where He was before?" This indicates that Jesus Christ was and is the Word that became flesh. Indeed Jesus has come from the Father. The Word was the divine nature of Cod and was made flesh for the Father to be manifested in.
In John 17:3, the Bible says, "And this is life eternal, that they might know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." One true Codmanifestedinhisflesh. Inverse5Jesusprayed,saying,"OFather,glo rify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." Here again we see that the glory of the Word of Cod
was the same with the glory of the Father and, when the Father was mani fested in Christ, He would have the glory of the Father.
Man s spirit, soul and flesh cannot have different glories as long as they ive in one person. Cod's Word (flesh) and Spirit must have the same glory
m person. After the birth of Jesus Christ, Cod is Spirit a er) and flesh and blood (Son). There cannot be three Cods or three per-
sons m the Godhead, but one (Ephesians 4:4-6; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; John 1:1-14; I John 1:1-7, 2:23, 5:20).
7.11 Why Christ is the Only Begotten Son of God The book of Genesis gives the scriptural account of the creation of man
, •••The LORD Cod formed man of the dust of the ground, and reat e into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
ei^sis2.7). TheBiblealsodeclares,"Havewenotallonefather? hathnot
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created us? (Malachi 2:10). Even the angels of heaven were called od (Job 38:7). Children of creation, like angels, or human beings
crea e
begotten Son of the Father (1 Corinthians 15:39-50).
rom the dust of the ground, do not have the same nature as the only
tVi God the Father has only one begotten Son, the Word of Cod at became flesh to manifest the divine nature as Cod-Man. In this way,
ist did not partake of the earthly, natural man; he is a heavenly, spiritual