You think you might know of such passages, although I wager you really do not know scripture sufficiently to tell either way. And besides, you have shown you are driven solely by your sources and books, by your religious convictions over the word of God and what your religious teachers and their doctrines teach you to know.
Fortunately there are no scripture verses, passages, chapters that speak to Christ's pre-existence. John especially would not speak of such nonsense and fantasies as his main theme was the discovery and advertisement of the Son of God, his Father, who God first created him on earth and then lived within him, even today.
Do you believe that God lives within Jesus today civic? Now you can find scripture that does support this critical salvation question, right? And you do not even have to lift another book or other sources in support....
John 1:1-3
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 into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
John 1:14
14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory
These verses in John’s prologue reveal the pre existence of the Eternal Word/Son who was God and became flesh. He was the Creator of all things. Nothing came into existence apart from Him. He is before everything that has a beginning.
John 1:15
15 John bore witness of Him, and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has a higher rank than I,
for He existed before me.'"
John 1:30
"This is He on behalf of whom I said, 'After me comes a Man who has a higher rank than I,
for He existed before me.'
John the Baptist was 6 months older than Jesus Christ. So it is impossible for Christ to be before him unless Jesus pre existed.
John 3:13
No one has ever gone into heaven
except the one who came from heaven — the Son of Man.
Again we see the pre existence of the Son and where He declares that He came from heaven to earth.
John 3:17
"For God did not
send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him.
This verse shows the Son was sent from heaven by the Father to the earth.
John 6:38
For I have come down from heaven, not to do
my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Human beings come into existence when they are born into this world, but we surely do not come from Heaven.
John 8:23
"You are from beneath
I Am from above, you are of this world I Am not of this world"
John 8:58
Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you
, before Abraham was born, I Am."
Here we see that Jesus lets the Pharisees know that He existed as a person before Abraham was born. Once again we see Jesus claiming to be the Eternal God.
Jhn 16:28 I came forth from the Father, and am
come into the world: again,
I leave the world, and go to the Father.
John 17:1,5
“Father, the hour has come; glorify
Your Son, that
the Son may glorify You,
And now, Father,
glorify Me in your own presence with the glory that
I had with you before the world existed.
Here we see the Son declared that He shared the same Glory together with the Father prior to creation. This passage makes Him equal with the Father as the Eternal God. Below again we see His pre existence and in 17:25 Jesus again states the Father sent the Son into
John 17:24
"Father, I desire that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am, in order that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me; for
Thou didst love Me before the foundation of the world.
Below we read it was the Son who already existed as the Son which the Father sent into the world.
John 3:16-17"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him.
1 Cor 15:47 The first man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven.
Gal 4:4
But when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
1 John 4:14
And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
In 1 John 3:8 we see that the Son of Gods appearance or manifestation was for this very purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil. The verb φανερόω means to make manifest, appeared, to make visible or to bring to light something that was previously hidden. This clearly means that Jesus had already existed as the Son of God and He was made manifest or visible to us.
Now we also know from Johns writings that those who deny Jesus came in the flesh are the spirit of antichrist. Those who deny God became flesh and dwelt among us are deceivers. The Incarnation was permanent as we read in 2 John 7- Jesus has come in the flesh. A past action with present results.
Col 1:13-18For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 15 And He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created by Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Heb 1:2-3in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. 3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.
Heb 1:8
But of the Son He says,
"Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever,
Heb 5:7-8
In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety. 8 Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.
The question is who or what was He before the days of His flesh? It is obvious that He pre existed before His birth(days of His flesh) as the Divine Son who is the 2nd person of the Trinity.
hope this helps !!!
