“In (the) beginning was the Word.” (John 1:1)
Belief in pre-existence of Jesus the Christ (and by that is meant the living existence in personal being of the same individual before His birth in Bethlehem of Judea) is so commonly believed throughout Christendom, that the study of the subject cannot well be omitted from our pages. We grant that there are passages in the Scriptures which, if the doctrine were true, could be cited in its favor with some degree of reason. If, however, at the commencement of, and throughout, the Scripture records, events are recorded which preclude such a possibility, then the scriptures alluded to must obviously have other explanation.
By general consent, churches of all of the “evangelical denominations” are agreed that Genesis 3:15 (“I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel”) is prophetic of the Christ as the Seed of the woman. Granting the correctness of the belief, the beginning of its fulfillment must—and it is a must according to the circumstances stated—have experienced its initial stages in the life-processes of Eve and continued through her descendants, eventuating in the coming Messiah. Though Eve’s name is not mentioned in Luke’s genealogy, it is obviously included in the name of Adam. The Apostle Paul, through inspiration, made reference to this genealogical fact in Hebrews 7:9, 10. The natural question then arises, How is it possible, in the face of Luke’s genealogy and the scientifically demonstrated process of generation, for the resultant predicted Personality to share contemporaneously in the chosen line of descent, while He is supposedly living in the full enjoyment of another life of corporeal and mental activity: one of the two being complete, while the other is in process of coming into Being? No one, to my knowledge, has succeeded in answering that question. We will be interested in considering it when it comes.
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Author: R. H. Judd
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Bible reference(s): Proverbs 8:23, John 1:1-3, Joh 1:14, John 1:15, John 1:30, Joh 3:13, Joh 6:38, Joh 6:58, John 6:62, Joh 8:56-58, Joh 17:5, Joh 17:24, 1Co 10:4, Hebrews 1:2-5, Heb 1:8, Heb 1:13
Source: One God: God of the Ages (Oregon, IL: Restitution Herald, 1949).
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