The Person of Jesus Was the Son of God Before His Earthly Conception and Birth

 

In response to someone denying Jesus was the Son of God before His conception in Mary's womb, I the wrote the following contrary to his claim that Jesus only became the Son of God after His birth to Mary.

The Bible says God sent His SON INTO the world [John 3:17]. He was the Son of the Father BEFORE being conceived in Mary's womb. Isaiah says in 9:6 "For to us a child is born, to us a SON is given..." 

John 3:17 LSB

[17] For God did not SEND THE SON ***INTO*** THE WORLD to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 

1 John 4:9 LSB

[9] By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten SON INTO THE WORLD so that we might live through Him. 

Notice that He was the Son before being sent into the world. 

Jesus was the Father's firstborn before being sent into the world: 

Hebrews 1:6 LSB

[6] And when He again BRINGS THE FIRSTBORN INTO THE WORLD, He says, “And let all the angels of God worship Him.” 

Proverbs 30:4 LSB

[4] Who has ascended into heaven and descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped the waters in His garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? WHAT IS HIS NAME? AND WHAT IS HIS SON ’s NAME? Surely you know! 

Proverbs 30:4 reveals God had a Son in the Old Testament. The verse asks what is God's name, and what is His Son's name. Meaning can you FULLY grasp God's nature, or the nature of His Son? The answer to the rhetorical question is that while you can APPREHEND God truly, no one can COMPREHEND God [and His nature] exhaustively. Nor that of His Son [cf. Matt. 11:17; Luke 10:22]. The word "name" can mean nature, as in Ps. 9:10, where to know God's name is to know His faithful and trustworthy nature. 

Psalms 9:10 LSB

[10] And those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, O Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek You. 

Hebrews 10:5 LSB

[5] Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME; 

Hebrews 10:5 shows Jesus' conscious personal preexistence. 

Galatians 4:4 LSB

[4] But when the fullness of the time came, God SENT FORTH HIS SON, born of a woman, born under the Law, 

Hebrews 1:2 LSB

[2] in these last days spoke to us in His SON, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds, 

Hebrews 7:3 LSB

[3] Without father, without mother, without genealogy, HAVING NEITHER BEGINNING OF DAYS NOR END OF LIFE, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest continually.

Notice it doesn't say that Jesus was like Melchizedek. Rather, that Melchizedek was like the Son of God who has no beginning of days or end of life.

//And please get this clear...God who is OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT AND OMNIPRESENT...why would he WALK// 

Read Gen. 3:8 AGAIN It EXPLICITLY says Adam and Eve heard the sound/voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden. Yahweh is portrayed as taking on human form many times in the Old Testament. See for example Gen. chapters 18-19. There I believe it was the pre-incarnate Jesus.