Nothing you just said addresses the issue, yes Jesus was the same person that he was prior to coming to earth, but again, you stated Jesus was the "son of man" prior coming to earth, this is impossible. Jesus was the "firstborn of the dead" according to Col 1:18, would it be correct to say the Jesus was the "firstborn of the dead" prior coming to earth, or does Jesus being the "firstborn of the dead" only relate to the Jesus
after he dead and was resurrected. I think we both know the answer.
Likewise Jesus being the "son of man" relates to his humanity, Jesus only got his human when he became human after he left heaven. I understand what you're saying but again, it does not explain the contradiction I highlighted. Jesus being the "image of God" has nothing to do with out discussion as it does not explain how Jesus was a "Man" in heaven (by the statement "Son of Man") and yet only became "man" when coming to earth.
All you've done is thrown a whole heap of, God made himself a body, our spirit is inside us, Jesus spirit is the spirit of the Father, Jesus has a spiritual body, in a hope this somehow hides the fact you don't have a clue how to answer the question I asked.
The reason why is because Jesus was NOT the "son of Man" prior coming to heaven, scripture only refers to him in some sense the same way we say call Paul by his name Paul even when referencing the account he was Saul, the same way we call Abraham Abraham even when talking about the account he was Abram, the same way we say Jesus took the scroll out of the hand of the one seated on the throne even though it was the Lamb(Jesus).
Again I do not hold that we should entertain technicalities, but its a different matter when you blindly state I am wrong when I highlight that the technicality is technically right.
We are made in God's image, so two arms, legs, a body, a head...that is what God looks like before we were made.
God the Father is INVISIBLE, but He made Himself a body. That body is the Spiritual body of the Man Jesus.
You contradict yourself, you state that
God is invisible and made himself a body, that body being the body Jesus is in, yet you initially said that we are made in the image of God. If we are made in the image of God, yet God is invisible and had to at a much later stage make Jesus a physical body who then became Gods image then logic would dictate the God, who created us in his image, who had no visible body but created one for himself being Jesus, then God does not have a physical body, if he did, then he would not have created one, namely a body for Jesus. Your reasoning is not consistent.
I do not believe that Jesus is a physical representation of the Father, no scripture states he is. Scripture does not state the Father is invisible but that God in his entirety (trinity if true included) is invisible. 1 Tim 1:17 that refers to "the only God", meaning the fullness of the trinity, namely Jehovah (not that I believe in the trinity) as invisible.
(1 Timothy 1:17) "..Now to the King of eternity, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.."
Since scripture states that Jesus, after his ascension to heaven, is the
"image of God" and the
"exact representation of his very being" if God is invisible, the, Jesus as Gods exact image and representation must too be invisible.
You keep wanting me to say Jesus was a Man before coming to earth, all the while you fail to understand that we are made in Jesus' image and that HE had and has a SPIRITUAL BODY, and we do not. We have a spirit, but our bodies are not yet Spiritual.
You are correct that Jesus has a spirit body, this simply adds to my understanding that he is thus invisible, physical beings are visible, spirit bodies are not.
When we are resurrected with new bodies, we will be given back our flesh bodies, but it will be a body that does not decay, it will be a SPIRITUAL BODY. Spirit, and a Spiritual BODY are two different things.
No scripture states that we will be given back out physicial bodies. Physical things decay, scripture states
"that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom", thus to say we will get out fleshly bodies back when in heaven goes against scripture.