Prepared by: Richard G.

Pazcoguin UST Institute of Religion

As human beings, our existence began the moment we were conceived in our mothers womb.

The Son of God, however, became man. This means that prior to His conception in the Virgin Mothers womb, he had long been existing.

JESUS speaking to the Jews:

Abraham, your Father, rejoiced to see MY DAY, he saw it and was glad. So the Jews said to him, You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham? Jesus said to them, Amen, Amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM. John 8:56-58

This biblical text affirms that Christ

existed before Abraham. I AM was a divine name in the Old Testament. This text not only proves the preexistence of Jesus but his Divinity as well.

Creation is often attributed to God the Father, Redemption to the Son, and Sanctification to the Holy Spirit.

This does not mean that each of the three Divine Persons acted exclusively on the tasks attributed to them. The Blessed Trinity is a perfect communion of Persons, distinct but one, therefore They always acted as one.
When the world was created, the Son and the Spirit were the Fathers co-creators. GOD = HOLY TRINITY To say that God created the world is to say that the Holy Trinity is the creator of the world.

John 1:1-3, 10 In the BEGINNING was the WORD And the WORD was WITH GOD And the WORD was GOD. He was in the beginning with God. ALL THINGS CAME TO BE THROUGH HIM AND WITHOUT HIM NOTHING CAME TO BE He was in the world AND THE WORLD CAME TO BE THROUGH HIM.

The Son (Word) is Divine and have been existing since the very beginning. The Creator of the world, God, cannot be a creature. If the Son is creator, the Son is not a creature.

Colossians 1:15-17 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For IN HIM ALL THINGS WERE CREATED in heaven and on earth, whether thrones or To be the firstborn of all creation does not dominions or principalities or mean to be the first creature. The firstborn powers, ALL THINGS WERE child is the one that gets the birthright. This CREATED THROUGH HIM AND emphasizes Christ superiority over creation. FOR HIM. HE IS BEFORE ALL In later verses, to be firstborn simply means to be the first to be raised from the dead. THINGS AND IN HIM ALL These verses again tell us that Jesus is THINGS HOLD TOGETHER.
Creator. The Creator cannot be a creature.

Hebrews 1:2-3 In these last days, He (God) spoke to us through a son, whom he made heir of all things and THROUGH WHOM HE CREATED THE UNIVERSE, who is the refulgence of his glory, the very imprint of his being and WHO SUSTAINS ALL THINGS BY HIS MIGHTY WORD.

The Son is heir of all things- this is the reason why he is called the firstborn of creation, not because he was a creature. It was through the Son that the universe was created The Son is creator. Gods mighty word brought things to existence. The Sons mighty word sustains all things.

Revelation 22:13

THE SON IS ETERNAL: no beginning, no end. If the Son had a beginning, he cannot be the beginning. ONLY GOD IS ETERNAL. If the Son is eternal, then the Son is God. GOD IS CREATOR. If the Son is God, then the Son, while distinct from the Father and the Holy Spirit, is Creator.

SOURCE: Raymond E. Brown

AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTOLOGY

NJ: Paulist Press, 1994