[noeticknight]

Originally Posted by jfrog

Interesting! This isn't a very researched thought on my part but I'm going to throw it out there anyway. The bible says the "Logos" was in the beginning with God and was God. I wouldn't equate the divine manifestation in the form of Jesus Christ as the "Logos". The "Logos" was made flesh. This explicitly speaks that the divine manifestation in the flesh of Jesus Christ was not always existentin reality because the flesh of Jesus was not always existent. It's not what is in the thoughts of God that makes something existent, except as a thought. So, no we did not exist except as a thought in God's mind. Maybe an interesting question to ask on this would be, did the thought of you or your parents come into God's mind first... Age isn't just that a thought of you may have existed at the same time as them, but that thought also contained them coming into existence in reality before you. They are older than you whether the thought of them is older than you or not.

I'm saying that the term divine is a relative term. I'm saying that God is divine whether or not he created anything. If he didn't the simple concept that he could have is enough to assert his divinity. Just as the concept of good is enough to call something evil even if you have never experienced the good revealed through the concept.

I agree!