The True Origin of "the Son of God": Did Jesus Literally Pre-exist?

This book is the sequel to my book Can There Be Three Persons in One God? This sequel deals with what has been called 'the first plank leading to the concept of the Trinity some three hundred years after Jesus' ministry,' namely, the idea that Jesus literally pre-existed as either a 'God the Son' or a spirit-being, often presented as the archangel Michael. Certainly there are pre-existence statements about Jesus in the Gospel of John. However, the mistake has been to have understood them according Western cultural thinking rather than the Jewish thinking of the first century which used a great number of figures of speech. When this is understood then all such pre-existence statements about Jesus can be seen as referring to God's foreordination of Jesus, so that pre-existence is seen as conceptual or notional or ideal, in other words, that Jesus as Messiah was foreknown in God's mind until he became a reality when he was miraculously conceived in the womb of Mary. A further mistake from John's Gospel has been the attributing of "the word (Gk logos)" to Jesus when in fact in the more than 300 occurrences of logos in the New Testament only one occurrence refers to a person - all others refer to a variety of impersonal terms and in John 1 to God's self-revelation or Gospel plan as many scholars show. Furthermore, the Apostle Paul's statements in Philippians 2:6-11 are often misinterpreted through failure to take into account the context. This is true also of Colossians 1:15-17 as referring to the new creation rather than the creation of the universe. Indeed the Scriptures are very clear many times that only Yahweh (Jehovah) was the creator of the universe without anyone's assistance (Isa. 44:24). These scriptures show that Jesus had no part in the creation of the universe but is indeed the co-creator of the new creation by means of his redeeming work. This is further emphasised when one comes to realize that Jesus only came into existence (was begotten) in the womb of Mary and so did not exist at any time before that. All of these facts are substantiated by some of the very best Greek-English linguists and theologians throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as quoted in this book. Additionally, this understanding has also been held by small groups of Christians since the late first and early second centuries. Just as leading theologian N.T Wright has shown that the mainstream churches got things so wrong in terms of the final destiny of Christians, so too, it is the case with Christian analysis of who Jesus is by applying the unbiblical term 'God the Son' to him as a so-called 'God/man, when in fact, he always was a mortal man until his resurrection when he was granted to become an immortal man (Acts 17:31), but not simply an ordinary man, but one who, from his conception is God's uniquely begotten son.