preexistence and his divine nature or attributes are bound up together. If Christ existed as a divine person before his human life, then he is the definitive revelation of the nature of God because his nature is, in fact, the nature of God. On the other hand, if Christ did not exist before his human life, then he is a revelation of the nature of God only in the sense that in his words and actions we see how God wants us to live. We may put the question this way: Was Jesus a man through whom God was