I'm not persuaded of the Logos being the visible manifestation of God through generations and later incarnated in Christ. The Christ was a real human, with a human will and soul, and yet the real God fully bodily in him. No idea how that worked out and no that I will ever understand. We try to make sense of everything in this age we live it but it is OK to leave some mysteries as mysteries.
However, what caught my attention the most of Mike's post was the first part.
[
Rev 13:8 NKJV] All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the
Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
[
Eph 1:4 NKJV] just as
He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
[
2 Tim 1:9 NKJV] who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace
which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
I came to the confirmation again, that it is just the language of the Bible, that for many seem to indicate pre-existing of a materialized Son, or begotten Son.
But it is clarified in the following verse:
[
1 Pet 1:20 NKJV]
He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you
It is just the language, which is used for the Christ and also for the Church.
Again, to me, the Son existed from the beginning... in God's plan, as He created everything and as He, knowing the coming falling, ordained the ages (worlds) around the Christ, and after the falling of Adam, subjected everything under corruption to be restored again in the age to come.
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