Monday, August 10, 2020

Why the Latter-day Saint Belief in Universal Personal Pre-Existence is Necessary to Affirm Jesus' being Truly Human

 

I have argued previously that the Latter-day Saint belief that everyone, not just Jesus, helps preserve belief in the true and full humanity of Jesus and helps answer Unitarian critiques of Jesus personally (not notionally) pre-existing. Such is strengthened by our belief that there is no "species distinction" between humans, angels, and God. On this, see:



 

To see a presentation by a (so-called "Biblical") Unitarian on this issue which presents many problems for traditional Trinitarian Christology on this issue, see:

 

Theological Conference 2020: "Jesus Christ is not a human person” Bill Schlegel




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