Originally Posted by
alanmolstad
So to answer the question directly "Did Jesus Christ have eternal life before the resurrection?: the answer is no, not as long as you are only considering his human nature.
The human nature of Christ was born mortal.
The moment the human body of Jesus aged in even the slightest way you have all the proof you need to know that he is just as born mortal as any other human.
This is why the Bible tells us about the "man" Christ Jesus...
For Jesus was born a true human "man".
So Jesus was born mortal, so that he could know the sufferings of being human...and could die.
This is how the Lord God, who cant age nor die, and has always eternal life and cant change that fact of His nature, was able to age, was able to suffer, was able to die a mortal death.
So in his Divine nature the answer to the question, "Did Jesus Christ have eternal life before the resurrection?" is "Yes!" , and that did not change, Yet in his human nature Jesus was born mortal and was raised after his death on the cross to eternal life.
any questions?