Was Jesus Created Or Did He
Exist Before His Birth?

Jesus was begotten John 3:16.   Matt: 1:18-23 tells of His birth. Luke 1:26-35 His birth, a body of flesh. This body of flesh was created, begotten by the Holy Ghost, or the Spirit of God, John 4:24. God is a spirit. He got His life from the spirit of God, but He got His body from Mary. Matt. 1:18-23; Luke 1:26-35. He was the only begotten son of God. He was the seed of David, John 7:42. The body did not exist before the foundation of the world, only in the mind and blueprint of God, or the Plan of God. 

God planned this glory for the son and loved the son before the foundation of the world. Knowing that the human race would fall into sin. He foreordained the Plan of Salvation based on the birth, death, burial and resurrection of the son of God. For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, such as silver and gold, with your vain conversations received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ. As of a Lamb without blemish, and without spot. Who verily was foreordained from the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. I Corin 1:18-20. Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Jesus Christ was not actually born before the creation of the world, nor was He actually crucified at that time, but in the plan of God the atoning sacrifice of Christ was a foreordained, certain, event. God does not inhabit time as we do:  The past, present and future are all alike to him. He calls those things that be not as though they were Romans 4:17. He created the world with the Son in view, predicating all creation upon the future arrival and atonement of the Son of God.

When Jesus asked for the father to give Him the glory he had with him before the world began, He was not speaking of a time when He lived in a body of flesh along side the Father as second divine person. Glory from such a time would be divine glory, which He never could have lost and which He could never share with His disciples. God said I will not give my glory to another, Isaiah 42:8. 

Before the incarnation the spirit of Jesus was the one eternal God, not a second person. The glory of which Jesus spake was the glory He as a man would have in the fulfillment of God foreordained plan of redemption for the human race. That was what Jesus looked forward to as He prayed and that was what He asked the father to give Him, so that He could share it with all believers. 

The only way that we will ever see God, is in the body of Jesus Christ. One sits on the throne, and His Name one, Rev. 4:2; Zech. 14:10. 

When God said "let us make man in our image" Genesis 1:26, He was not speaking to another person in the godhead. He was looking forward 4,000 years when Jesus Christ would come into the world and die on the cross to pay for the sins of the world. However, in the old testament God appeared many times as a theophany, Genesis 18:1-10. He appeared to Abraham in the planes of Mamre giving him the promise of Isaac. In verse 2, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, Lo, three men stood by him and one of these was "God". The other two angels went on to destroy Sodom. This was God as a theophany. Genesis 19:1. We know that this was God because Abraham bargained with Him about the destruction of Sodom, Genesis 18:25 that be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked: shall not the judge of all the earth do right. Verse 26 and the Lord said. This is God as an angel or a theophany. Genesis 18:14 God talking to Abraham asked this question? Is there anything to hard for the Lord. So God appeared in the old testament several times as an angel or theophany. Genesis 32:24-30, Jacob wrestled with the angel of the Lord, or theophany.   God appearing as a man or theophany.        

Isaiah 44:24 - He was alone in creation. Malachi 2:10 - One God created us.

John 4:24 - God is a Spirit. A spirit is invisible and cannot be seen. When God said "Let us make man in our image" He was looking forward 4,000 years to the birth of Jesus Christ. Jesus was the image or body of that invisible God, Col. 1:15.

If God has said let me make man in my image as spirit, man would be invisible. Jesus said no man has seen God at any time: the only begotten son, which is in the bosom of the father, he hath declared him. John 1:8. Keep in mind that Jesus was "begotten". He got his body from Mary. He was made of a woman, made under the Law. Gal. 4:4. He was begotten, the seed of David, II Tim. 2:8.

In the mind and blueprint or plan of God, Jesus Christ was crucified before the foundation of the earth. God spake of things that were not as though they were already. Romans 4:17. We know that Jesus was not actually slain before the foundation of the world, but the earth was made with the Son in view in the plan of God.

Genesis 1:27 says, so God made man in his own image, in the image of God created he them, male and female. 

John 1:8; Col. 1:15 Jesus was the image of the invisible God. God was looking forward to the time when Jesus would be born. He spoke of things that were not, as though they were.