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He Came down from Heaven: The Preexistence of Christ and the Christian Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

Who Was Jesus Christ? Accompanying all the new studies of the life of Jesus has been the question of Jesus’ identity. Was he anything more than a human creature? A key issue in this debate is the claim of Jesus’ preexistence as the divine, uncreated, Son of God before his incarnation on earth. Douglas McCready provides a thorough survey of the doctrine covering New Testament teaching, Jewish and...

overimpressed by data, statistics, and “facts.”24 None of us comes to the study of Christ’s preexistence neutral, and none of us can remain utterly objective during the course of this study. I write because I believe the doctrine of Christ’s personal preexistence is justified by the evidence, is theologically and philosophically coherent, and is essential to Christian faith and practice. Others have written on the subject because they have reached contrary conclusions. In later chapters I will enter
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