The pre-existence of Christ is one of the greatest secrets of the kingdom of God. It is little evident in Hebrew scripture what is put into an unborn being to make it a soul. Where a person begins before physical life begins is not revealed in Hebrew or Greek scripture. Yet there is a revelation of the beginnings of one person: The Christ. Before a zygote, a foetus,an embryo became an unborn baby and was born, there was something, someone, the Son of Man, the Word of God. Not just a twinkle in God’s eye. A being, a person. A living spirit. The Spirit of Christ. Yet of other people there is precious little if anything to say what of us exists before we take form as a soul with a body. “A body you have prepared for me. I have come to do your will O God” in prophetic writing Jesus speaks. Yet of the rest of us, do we inhabit a body given to us? What ‘we’ is it that inhabits a body if that is how it happens? Questions, few answers. Life before life. More mysterious than the afterlife.
