No friend, It means that He existed from all eternity as God. It does not mean that He merely resembled God but that He actually is God in the truest sense of the word. (Believer's Bible Commentary) You need to look at the facts. He was either a liar, a lunatic or God. Understand this. The religious leaders wanted to kill him for blasphemy, his claim to be God. Why can't you see what the word plainly says.
I do not dispute that he existed before time was created, for even time was created through him. But he is not God. He is the spiritual son that God created. He is the EXACT IMAGE of the creator. You suck in a church box brother. Open your mind and see that the son of God was God's first born of all creatures.
Mark 14:61-64New American Standard Bible (NASB)
61 But He kept silent and did not answer. Again the high priest was questioning Him, and saying to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?” 62 And Jesus said, “I am; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.” 63 Tearing his clothes, the high priest *said, “What further need do we have of witnesses? 64 You have heard the blasphemy; how does it seem to you?” And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.
They condemned Him for what? Come to know Him in this Holy season.
Read your verse again BR, Christ is not God, he is the Son of God.
Christ is a servant of his Father. There is only ONE TRUE GOD.
Your verse only proves my point.
See these friend:
Rom_1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from
God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom_15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Co_1:3
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
2Co_11:31
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
Eph_1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Eph_1:17
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph_5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto
God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Col_1:3 We give thanks to
God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
1Th_1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father
and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1Th_1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ,
in the sight of God and our Father;
2Th_1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ:
1Pe_1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Did you notice that the Father is the God of Jesus Christ?