And in accepting that inevitable FACT, proved by the findings of science, of the existence of that GREAT FIRST CAUSE, YOU HAVE ACCEPTED THE FACT of the existence and
preexistence of the Creator - GOD!
It is easy enough to deal with the doctrine of Christ's
preexistence and the legend of the Virgin birth in this way.
Nor, contra Jenson, is the divine Logos reducible to
the preexistence of Jesus in the Father's eternal predestination.
The use of the term «soul» carries no connotation in Whitehead of
preexistence or of life after death.
To be sure, Mark nowhere explicitly refers to
the preexistence.
It appears then that for Paul at least belief in
the preexistence of Christ was not the result of a progressive exaltation of the earthly life.
Reflection upon the resurrection led to the idea of pre-existence, and reflection upon
the preexistence led to the gradual supernaturalizing of Jesus» whole career.
Here we come upon the doctrine which is known as the doctrine of
the preexistence of the Word, or the pre-existence of the Son.
They even believed in
the preexistence of the Law, and that it has existed eternally in heaven, and was only recorded by Moses when God dictated it to him.
As for
the preexistence of Christ, it is significant that St. Paul speaks of it most emphatically at the point where he is not speaking of it directly — viz., when he is speaking about the cross, in Rom.
The description «first - born of all creation» speaks of Christ's
preexistence.
Time is incompatible with
the preexistence of the future, and the preexistence of the future is what Capek thinks the determinist is committed to.
From the Socratic point of view the individual has an existence prior to his coming into being and remembers himself, so that the Recollection here involved is
his preexistence, and not a recollection about his preexistence.
Jasper Johns's ambivalent American paintings, equipoised between image and object, invention and
preexistence, have long confounded art historians and critics — unsure of whether they stand for the United States and what sort of political orientation Johns imagined for them.