Eternal Jesus. He was before the world arose…

What do we mean by decision-making? How many times a day do we have to deal with things quickly; what to do first, what to pay more attention to, who to pay more respect to… This dispute takes place in the polemic about the sonship of Abraham. Jesus points out that he has priority over Abraham. “If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing. But my Father glorifies me, of whom you say: “He is our God” and you do not know him. But I know him” (Jn 8:54-55).

Jesus proves that he was given priority by God over Abraham, who was a man and was born in time. However, Jesus is the incarnate Word who is eternal and who was with God before all ages, even before the creation of the world. Jesus proves to them that he was earlier than Abraham: “Your father Abraham prayed that he would see my day, and he saw and rejoiced” (Jn 8:56). The Jews see only a young man in front of them. Jesus was 33 years old, so they say to him: “You are not yet fifty years old and have you seen Abraham?” (John 8:57).

They do not understand that Jesus is the Son of God, equal to God the Father, who does not know the concept of time, that is, he was first like Abraham, whom Jesus’ Father-God calls from Chaldean Ur to an unknown land: the land of Canaan and promises him that redemption will come from his descendants. … Jesus teaches that he is equal with God the Father. So Jesus was God and man in one person. He became like us in everything, took the body of the Virgin Mary, was born, lived among us, died. However, He was always and always God, and He did not cease to be God even for a moment, even when He took upon Himself the form of a man. We will understand everything only in the overall context of the teaching about love. No one could love more than Jesus, because he gave his own life for us. He wanted to propitiate his Father for the sins of all mankind. This had to be done by one who was equal to God the Father and at the same time was close to people. Therefore, this could only be accomplished in such a way that from eternity God the Son, the second divine person, the true God with the Father and the Holy Spirit, took upon himself the form of a man to do what no man could ever do, nor all men together, to atone the offense committed by the creature in offending God-the-Father by transgressing his command.

Today, we don’t just see the physical form of Jesus Christ, but we see the true God in Jesus. The one before whom we will one day come, whom, according to his own words, if we persevere to the end, we will see face to face. This obliges us to honor Jesus Christ as God. That is why our knees bend before the cross, before the images that represent Jesus Christ. In this way, we pay respect and tribute to the God whom we love, to whom we want to belong completely and whole, to whom we beg, to whom we beg, to whom we give thanks.

Even though the Jews did not accept the truth of Jesus and wanted to stone him; nothing came into being before he was, for he is from eternity. We believe that heaven and earth will pass away, but his existence knows no end.