It is a bit bizarre to me that people think that the only way Jesus could exist before becoming flesh was for there to be a Trinity or for Modalism to be true. Neither is true. Jesus called Himself Son of Man because there were scriptures in His time showing the Son of Man in prophesy having existed centuries beforehand and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus was ‘greater than me because He existed before me’ even though John was born first. Jesus was happy to be regarded as a deity in a loose sense, the sense in which any great, mighty person who judges can be regarded as such but Jesus is not in any sense the God He called the Father. He is not God in that sense. He was not telling anyone to break the first of the Ten Commandments.
