Jesus and His God

We have high regard for our unitarian friends who do not believe in the prehuman existence of Jesus, but we cannot agree with them in this conlusion. Most who reject Jesus' prehuman existence do not know the basis of Jesus' ransom sacrifice for sin and how that sacrifice saves Adam and all who are dying in Adam from the condemnation. Usually, those who do not believe Jesus was in existence before the days of flesh know nothing of the restoration (restitution) promises for all mankind that God has guaranteed because of Jesus' sacrifice. -- John 12:47,48; Acts 3:21; 17:31; Romans 5:12-19; 1 Corinthians 15:21,22; Acts 17:31; 1 Timothy 2:5,6. See The Ransom Resource Page We generally do not use the expression "pre-exist", but rather we speak of the "prehuman existence" of Jesus. Some could interpret the tem "pre-exist" to mean a time before one exists. Of course, no one exists in any time before his existence. We do believe that many scriptures...

Connected with the idea that Jesus is Jehovah (Yahweh) is the assumption that Jesus is the Creator. (By " the Creator " is meant the title often given to God -- the Supreme Being -- as being the Source of creation.) Scriptures often cited as proof that Jesus is the Creator are John 1:3; Colossians 1:16,17, and sometimes Hebrews 1:3,10,11. The claim is that these verses prove that Jesus is "the Creator", and hence that Jesus is Jehovah, the Supreme Being, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. (Exodus 3:15; Acts 3:13) Additionally, Isaiah 44:24 is often cited as proof that Jehovah was alone at creation; thus, if Jesus was at creation, Jesus must have been Jehovah.  Actually, there is nothing in any of the above verses that identifies Jesus as the Creator -- the source of creation. The word “creator” is never used of Jesus in the Bible. The thought that Jesus is "the Creator" has to be imagined, assumed, added to, and read into the scriptures. Jesus himself...