Jesus did not exist until He was conceived and born through Mary.
1Pe 1:20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you
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1. Then can you tell me why even groups like Jehovah's Witnesses or individuals like Meshak acknowledge that Jesus existed far before the virgin birth? They have no motivation to acknowledge Jesus as the Supreme God, yet they acknowledge Jesus as ancient and existing before his birth.
2. John the Baptist was six months older than Jesus, so why did he say that Jesus was
before him?
John 1:15 KJV
(15) John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me:
for he was before me.
3. Why did Jesus respond to questions about his age with "Before Abraham was, I AM?" Note also that he precedes this with "verily verily" which is how he would indicate that he speaks literally, not within his typical mode of metaphor or parable.
John 8:57-58 KJV
(57) Then said the Jews unto him,
Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
(58) Jesus said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Before Abraham was, I am.
4. How is it that Jesus beheld Satan fall from heaven, and why would this explain why even the devils were subject to his name? Didn't that fall from heaven happen some time before?
Luke 10:17-18 KJV
(17) And the seventy returned again with joy, saying,
Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
(18) And he said unto them,
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
5. Why is it then that the gospel of John tells us that the Word was with God (and even literally God) in the beginning, and and the Word became flesh and walked among us?
John 1:1-3 KJV
(1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(2)
The same was in the beginning with God.
(3) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
6. Why does Jesus call himself the first and the last, the beginning and the end? The beginning starts in Genesis 1 before the creation of the earth, and the end ends with the new heavens and the new earth.
Isaiah 41:4 KJV
(4)
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Revelation 1:17-18 KJV
(17) And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me,
Fear not; I am the first and the last:
(18)
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.