The Origin of Jesus
by Ellen White
There is light and glory in the truth that Christ was one with the Father before the
foundation of the world was laid. This is the light shining in a dark place, making it
resplendent with divine, original glory. This truth, infinitely mysterious in itself,
explains other mysterious and otherwise unexplainable truths, while it is enshrined in
light, unapproachable and incomprehensible. 1SM 247,248
God is the Father of Christ; Christ is the Son of God. To Christ has been given and
exalted position. He has been made equal with the Father. All the counsels of God are
opened to His Son. 8T 268
The dedication of the first-born had its origin in the earliest times. God had promised
to give the First-born of heaven to save the sinner. DA 51
Jesus declared, "I am the resurrection, and the life." In Christ is life,
original, unborrowed, underived. "He that hath the Son hath life." The divinity
of Christ is the believer's assurance of eternal life. DA 530
Christ is the pre-existent, self-existent Son of God... In speaking of his
pre-existence, Christ carries the mind back through dateless ages. He assures us that
there never was a time when He was not in close fellowship with the eternal God. He to
whose voice the Jews were then listening had been with God as one brought up with Him. EV
615
He was equal with God, infinite and omnipotent...He is the eternal, self-existent Son.
EV 615
Christ, the Word, the only begotten of God, was one with the eternal Father - one in
nature, in character, in purpose - the only being that could enter into all the counsels
and purposes of God. PP 34
The Eternal Father, the Unchangeable One, give His only begotten Son, tore from His
boson Him who was made in the express image of His person, and sent Him down to earth to
reveal how greatly He loved mankind. RH JUL.9,1895