No Pre-existing Son... Before Christ's Birth?

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Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Some folks just like being wordy. Neck's Dad who was known as a great Godehead teacher( I had one exception with him but I won't go into that here) was teaching on the subject in depth at a meeting. An AG lady was present and he was trying to reach her. After a couple of hours of excellent teaching on the subject he finished. Standing on the steps with the Pastor as folks were leaving the AG lady shook their hands and said I just don't understand what you were saying. He replied "God who is Spirit that is everywhere made a body and climbed in it so He could die for our sins and we could see Him." She said take me to the water. Sometimes the simplicity is overlooked. Being a teacher is NOT making the simple complicated but making the complicated simple.

Steve,
when it comes to overlooking simplicity, I am no match to Jason's disclaimer.

If your view is simple, please rip the words father and son out of your dictionary because they do not really mean anything that can be understood without a metaphysical journey to the origins of some hypostatic union.....and once you get there you will ask yourself (if honest) "How does this establish a FATHER and a SON using any normal SIMPLE word usage?" But if word usage is going to mess up a long standing doctrinal assertion....by all means, alter the word usage because your previous teachings must be preserved at all costs.