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God's plan of salvation, begun before the world started, depended on the Christ, the holy one of God, the man Jesus who would die. A simple and engaging story about a baby born to Mary who would accomplish great things and overcome temptation, and not sin, and yet die for all other's sin. His raising by his God meant we too are raised in him - just as we die in him.

No, Jesus is not claiming deity by uttering the simple phrase, ‘I am’. He didn’t claim it anywhere else, why would he do so here in such an abstract manner?

God's plan of salvation, begun before the world started, depended on the Christ, the holy one of God, the man Jesus who would die. A simple and engaging story about a baby born to Mary who would accomplish great things and overcome temptation, and not sin, and yet die for all other's sin. His raising by his God meant we too are raised in him - just as we die in him.

Here we go again, reading in our own assumptions about the supposed pre-existence of Jesus and ignoring the bible's ready explanation.

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus 1 Timothy 2:5

A plain and easily understood passage, of which there are many more, that tells us who Jesus is - and who he is not. Fabricating wild theories about his pre-existence and his deity and his incarnation and his two-natures are simply seeking the wisdom of men and not paying careful attention to the inspired word of God prepared and kept for us.

God's plan of salvation, begun before the world started, depended on the Christ, the holy one of God, the man Jesus who would die. A simple and engaging story about a baby born to Mary who would accomplish great things and overcome temptation, and not sin and yet die for all other's sin. His raising by his God meant we too are raised in him - just as we die in him.

Who are you!

We have the advantage of reading so much wonderfully inspired teaching from the NT writers. One can only wonder why we must then also seek contradictory material from the lips of men unqualified to replace God's word about a man, sent from heaven to proclaim a new teaching about a new covenant, based not on a law and death, but on a new spirit and a new life eternal.

Just as we don't seem to like the manner of who Jesus is and strive to make him something else that is not of scripture proclaimed since Adam in the garden.

It’s easy to read in our own assumptions or believe those made by learned ones before us. The supposed pre-existence of Jesus is one of those assumptions and ignores the bible's ready explanation of what before means.

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus 1 Timothy 2:5

A plain and easily understood passage, of which there are many more, that tells us who Jesus is - and who he is not. Fabricating theories about his pre-existence and his deity and his incarnation and his two-natures are simply seeking the wisdom of men and not paying careful attention to the inspired word of God prepared and kept for us - which teaches none of these ideas.

God's plan of salvation, begun before the world started, depended on the Christ, the holy one of God, the man Jesus who would die. A simple and engaging story about a baby born to Mary who would accomplish great things and overcome temptation, and not sin, and yet die for all other's sin. His raising by his God meant we too are raised in him - just as we die in him.

Who are you!?

We have the advantage of reading so much wonderfully inspired teaching from the NT writers. One can only wonder why we must then also seek contradictory material from the lips of men unqualified to replace God's word about a man, sent from heaven to proclaim a new teaching about a new covenant, based not on a law of sin and death, but on a new spirit and a new life eternal made possible through grace.

Just as we don't seem to like the manner of who Jesus is and strive to make him something else that is not of the scripture proclaimed since Adam in the garden.

Why are many so desperate to seek the wisdom of men and disregard that of God? The deity of Christ is not expressed in the bible unless we choose to read it in to verses like John 8:24, drawing assumptions that conflict with the truth we are given. Others used this same expression of 'I am', the blind man and Paul also, Acts 26:29, and the disciples Matt 26:22.

Jesus is expressing that he is the sent one, the Messiah, the Christ, and the one told from Genesis of the seed of the woman. He told them that he was he one of whom Moses wrote.

Why are many so desperate to seek the wisdom of men and disregard that of God? The deity of Christ is not expressed in the bible unless we choose to read it in to verses like John 8:24, drawing assumptions that conflict with the truth we are given. Others used this same expression of 'I am', the blind man and Paul also, Acts 26:29, and the disciples Matt 26:22. None of them were God either.

Did Yahweh say, "I am"? We are presented with the Hebrew, "I will be who I will be", or something similar. But that doesn't seem to matter to those who want to make "I am" something of their own making and a man God sent, God Himself.

Jesus is expressing that he is the sent one, the Messiah, the Christ, and the one told from Genesis of the seed of the woman. He told them that he was the one of whom Moses wrote.

How could Jesus be before Abraham if he is Abrahams's descendant? He wasn't before in time, but before in prominence. Jesus is the cornerstone of God's plan, Abraham is but a brick by comparison.