(1) as the firstborn creature. — Colossians 1:15,16; Proverbs 8:22-25; Revelation 3:14. Jesus was the firstborn of the invisible, heavenly sons of God spoken on Job 38:4-7.
2) of the holy spirit as a human, not of the creation condemned to death and subjected to futility. — Matthew 1:20; Luke 2:11; John 1:14; 8:23; Romans 1:1-3; 5:12-19; 8:19-22; Galatians 4:4; Hebrews 2:9,14; 10:5.
Before Jesus became flesh (John 1:14), he had already been begotten as the firstborn Son of God. (Colossians 1:15) As such he was a mighty spirit being. From the time of his being created, he was evidently the Word -- the agent -- that God used in reference to all other creation. All is of the only true God (John 17:3) through the one that bears the name, the Word of God. (1 Corinthians 8:6; Revelation 19:13) I have no reason to think that the Logos -- the person -- that the disciples saw was not the same person who was with the Supreme Mighty One of John 1:1,2. John described the Logos as having "glory as of the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth." -- John 1:14.
The bodily glory of a spiritual body and the bodily glory of a physical are never confused in the Bible; they are kept separate. (1 Corinthians 15:39-41) Thus, the glory that Jesus prayed for, which he had with his God and Father before the world had been made, was a heavenly, spiritual glory, not an earthly, physical glory. (John 17:5) Jesus did have the earthly glory of a sinless man -- a glory that is a little lower than angels (Hebrews 2:9) -- while he was in the days of his flesh (Hebrews 5:7), but he did not have his former spiritual bodily glory that he once had with his God and Father before he became flesh.
Some have claimed that Matthew 3:16, 17; Mark 1:10,11; Luke 3:22 shows that Jesus was begotten as a new creature while when he was baptized. None of these scriptures, however, say such, thus this idea has to be assumed beyond what is actually stated. Indeed, if Jesus was not begotten (brought forth) as a new creature (as opposed to the creation now condemned in Adam and under the bondage of corruption), that would mean that Jesus was born into this world of the old creation, rather than as the new creation, and that he could not make himself straight any more than anyone else born under the present sun of vanity and corruption. -- Ecclesiastes 1:2-15; 7:13;
Jesus had to be a new creature at his birth, not of the old creation through Adam, which has been subjected to vanity under a bondage of corruption. God Himself has temporarily subjected the old creation to be under the sun of vanity and corruption (a crooked, not justified, condition), and yet his purpose is to bring man out from this sun of vanity into the blessings as a new creation under the sun of righteousness. There is no new creation that comes out of the old creation that is under bondage. (Ecclesiastes 1:10) Jesus therefore, came into the world, not as member of the old creation under bondage, but as new creation that is not under bondage. -- Genesis 3:17; Job 14:1,12; Job 104:29; Ecclesiastes 1:2,13-15; 2:11,19; 3:10,16; 4:7; 9:9; Malachi 4:2; Romans 5:12-19; 8:20-22; Revelation 22:16.
The God and Father of Jesus (Micah 5:4), in bringing Jesus into this world, did not make him a member of the old creation under bondage, but He prepared a body of flesh and blood for His Son, and made His Son to be with a sinless terrestrial, fleshly, bodily glory that is a little lower than the angels so that His Son could offer that sinless body of flesh with its blood to his God, Jehovah (Micah 5:4), for the sin of the world, thus making Jesus the savior of the world whom Jehovah sent. (Luke 22:19; John 6:51; Romans 5:12-19; 1 Corinthians 15:21,22,39-41; 1 Timothy 2:5,6; Hebrews 2:9;10:5,10; 1 Peter 2:24; 3:18; 1 John 4:9-14) This could not have been if Jesus was begotten into this world as a member of the old creation and need to begotten again as a new creature as the rest of mankind.
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