**Scripture teaches that Jesus is the Word (God) made Flesh.**
Your like-minded sidekick wouldn’t answer this, how about you:
Are the biceps, triceps, hamstrings, etc. of the Son, God?
If so, then those parts of God didn’t previously exist before the physical manifestation. So, by your style of logic, part of God (his Word) is not eternal. That won’t float because the Word was with God in the beginning. WAAAAAY before Mary came along.
It’s pretty simple. Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God,...not,...God the image. Just like the scriptures say almost 50 times; Jesus Christ is the Son of God,...not,...God the Son.
The true and very real substance of God, is invisible, and was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself. Jesus Christ, John, and Paul, affirm that fact.
Cheerio!
(it’s bedtime already)
The Word functions as the act of existence of the human nature of Jesus Christ.
Yes. The human nature of Jesus Christ began to exist in time, in the womb of Mary.
If you deny that Jesus Christ, the man who was born of Mary and lived in Nazareth, is God, the Second Person of the Trinity, then you are not a Christian, but have invented a new religion for yourself.