The Doctrine of God the Son Christology is fundamentally the doctrine of
Christ.
Jesus
Christ is the central figure of the world’s history. History is His-story. To leave Jesus out of History, is like the
sky without the blue and the ocean without the water. Almost Since time begin, the whole world had
waiting on his appearing. The Old
Testament foretells His coming in types, symbol, and direct prophecy. Without Christ appearing there would be no
Christianity. Christ is
Christianity. Christ in you the hope of
glory. You could have Mormonism without
Joseph Smith; and Islam without Muhammad.
But Christ is in Christian.
The Book Basic Bible Doctrine call this “His Eternal
Existence”
There are several
texts in the NT that speak in one way or another to the preexistence of Christ.
John says the “word” became flesh which implies that he had existed previous to
his incarnation (John 1:1, 14). Jesus himself suggests his preexistence in a number of
texts. He said he had glory with the father before the world was (John 17:5)
John 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify
thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the
world was.
and that he had come
from the father (John 5:43; 6:38). John 5:43 I am
come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his
own name, him ye will receive. John 6:38 For
I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent
me. These imply preexistence. Paul also, in referring to Christ as the last
Adam, implies his preexistence. So when he says that Christ was “rich,” but
then became “poor,” that he was “in the form of God,” but “humbled himself,”
that he was “before all things” Colossians
1:17 (KJV)
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. All these references refer to Christ Preexistence and therefore suggest that Christ existed previous to his coming to earth. Paul told the Corinthian people in 1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Note he say last Adam. There is not another one coming. He say correctly last Adam. Sometimes we will say the second Adam this is not doctrinal correct. If he was second Adam there could come a third, fourth, but he is the last Adam. He was in the Beginning with God and he was in the manger as man.
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. All these references refer to Christ Preexistence and therefore suggest that Christ existed previous to his coming to earth. Paul told the Corinthian people in 1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Note he say last Adam. There is not another one coming. He say correctly last Adam. Sometimes we will say the second Adam this is not doctrinal correct. If he was second Adam there could come a third, fourth, but he is the last Adam. He was in the Beginning with God and he was in the manger as man.
