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Cheryl,
(I hope that you will allow this to post as I will not make argument but limit myself to closing remarks)

It has nothing to do with physics but of basic logic and semantic dexterity. I honestly don’t think (I hope) that you believe differently regarding the fundamental nature of God the Son’s pre-existent nature than I would. And I will be the first to point out that topics like Jesus pre-existence are very difficult to handle in discussion because our language is constructed to handle concepts like “3 golf balls” and “tomorrow” it is not constructed to handle topics like “Trinity” or “eternity”. Indeed I am greatly reassured versus some of your original words on how we should not not “equate Christ with God” – I presume that you can understand the concern that these sorts of statements might raise given your interaction with cultist groups.

I would point out a trap of your words that perhaps you have not realized. You say

Christ is ONLY tied to His human nature

However, the Christ was both fully God and fully man He could not have been the Christ were He not fully God. Therefore to assert that the title of “the Christ” refers only to His human nature would be quite contrary to Scripture.

Indeed one thing that I cannot rule out from your words which still worries me is that you would assert that God the Son did not exist as a separate Person in “eternity past” but was somehow synthesized from a previously unified Godhead in the incarnation. I suspect (again hope) that you don’t believe this but I put it out there to clarify.

In the end I have more than exhausted what time I can devote to chasing this rabbit trail – so I will close only by stating that I believe with high confidence that you are wrong in your exact assertions about the Christ and that I can prove it Biblically…. however that it is very slight error and lies mostly in poorly constructed semantics and therefore not worth the time to quibble about.

I sign off with the Words of Jesus who is the Christ to the Pharisees who questioned Jesus (the man in front of them) about His pre-existence: “Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”