Christ at Creation

An odd paradox for us is that Christ is present and active in creation. Now on the one hand that's necessary since Christ is God. However on the other hand Christ is man. How can Christ exist as a man before God has begun creation?

I believe this paradox is solved by understanding that neither Christ nor the other "persons" of God are limited to our time frame.

2 Peter 3:8-
"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."

That's a contradictory statement if God is understood to be passing through time both at 1/365,000 our speed and 365,000 times faster than our speed. The only way I see to reconcile that statement is that God isn't limited to time.

Now this opens up some answers for how Christ as man and God can exist before creation. Christ as God is an eternal being who despite a beginning in Judea 2000 years ago, radiates through time. He stretches back to before creation and extends forward into eternity. His divinely united nature (God and man indivisible) lead to Christ's humanity existing before the creation of Adam.

In fact within the Book of Genesis, God is described as a Man who walks the Garden of Eden.

I'm going to use this framework of Christ at Creation to try to speculate on some interesting questions about creation. You see I believe that Christ's presence at creation explains many interesting questions we have. My next post in "Christ at Creation" will speculate on why death and decay have existed since the beginning of creation.