One, evidently a Unitarian who does not believe in the prehuman existence of Jesus , has presented the idea that the Greek phrase in John 8:58, often transliterated as “prin Abraam genesthai ego eimi”, should be rendered as “before Abraham was God”. This is based on the assumption that “ego eimi” is being used in John 8:58 as the name often transliterated as EHJEH (from the Masoretic text) in Exodus 3:14. We have no scriptural reason to think that when Jesus spoke the words often transliterated as EGO EIMI in John 8:58, that he was using the Holy Name EHJEH of Exodus 3:14. Jesus was responding to the Jews' question regarding his age, stating that he, himself, had been in existence before Abraham. They did not ask if God existed before Abraham, for I am sure that they already knew that God existed before Abraham. It was claimed that John 8:58 should be rendered as “God (Ehyeh) was before Abraham”, because “Yeshua's life started when he was born on earth, as you can se...
This site's purpose is to respond to claims that Jesus is Jehovah/Yahweh by pointing out what the scriptures do say versus what people often imagine and assume.