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I have not studied these questions before.

Having said that, I am confident that neither John 8:58 nor Hebrews 13:8 establishes that He was Jesus the Messiah prior to the Incarnation. Paul's teaching in 1 Cor. 10:4, however, is relevant:

1 Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

Because of that statement about His being the Christ before the Incarnation, I believe that He became Jesus Christ at the Incarnation.

I also think that this verse is important for you to consider carefully for another reason. Note that Paul says that the people drank the same spiritual drink. He says that even though we know that what they drank was physical water.

So the water that they drank was both physical water and spiritual water. It was spiritual water not because it was not physical but because it was of supernatural origin from the Spirit (hence the designation, spiritual).

In the same way, the glorious bodies that we will have in the future will be both physical bodies and Spiritual bodies.

 

Wow. Just wow.

I did go back to your post in previous thread to see what all this this talk of David L Cooper of BJU was about. Linked to it, and provided you some history of previous articulation of the concept in the 1800s.

 

So?

 

There is no Bible to support the notion that there has been a reversal of the Incarnation. This is heretical teaching.

 

Your claims that the Incarnation has been reversed and that there is no future physical resurrection of the dead are based on your serious mishandling of fundamental gospel teaching in 1 Cor. 15 and elsewhere. Your views are heretical.

 

Then so must you also be.