The answer to the first question is NO....Jesus has been with God since the beginning.
He is mentioned throughout the Old Testament. Even the Jews do not realise or refuse to accept this.
Although this is not immediately obvious, as most people just skim the pages, when we look closely and understand what we are reading, it's there in plain sight.
Only certain sections of the Bible are emphasised, with good reason. The rest of the Bible is at best given nothing more than lip service, at worst completely ignored altogether.
If you only read the New Testament you are missing and integral part of Jesus' story and how He eventually came to
save us.
Without an understanding of the Old Testament then the New Testament falls apart.
Think of it this way:-
The Old testament scriptures are the footings [of a house], and Christianity [the house], if you build a house without footings eventually the house will crumble and fall, which is exactly what
is happening today.
The following passages are so important, but completely ignored by religious teachers and the 'Christian' church in general.
A short excerpt from the Books of Adam and Eve:
God said to Adam, "I have ordained days and years on this earth, and you and your descendants shall live and walk them until the days and years are fulfilled. Then I shall send the Word that created you and against which you have transgressed the Word that made you come out of the garden and that raised you when you were fallen, Yes, this is the Word that will again save you when the five and a half days are fulfilled...." (5 and a half days = 5,500 years).
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word (Logos) was with God, and the Word (Logos) is God.
(One who is in the presence of another, Jesus is the Son of God and therefore also a God Himself).
John 1:14 The Word (logos) became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of Grace and Truth.
So here John tells us exactly who the Word or Logos is, it is none other than Jesus or Yeshua.
The answer to the 2nd question:
It also tells us that God and Jesus are TWO and not ONE, that Jesus (Yeshua) has been in the Bible from the very beginning.
Poem to the Divine Word (Logos)
In the beginning was the word
and the word was with God,
and God was the word.
The word in the beginning was with God.
Through God everything was born
and without the word nothing was born.
What was born through the word was life
and the life was the light of all people
and the light in the darkness shone
and the darkness could not apprehend the light.
Gospel of John 1:1-5
Whilst feeling down and not knowing in which direction I was going I found this song.
It brought me to tears as it tells of everything I am going through.
Click here for to hear it on YouTube
GOD HELP ME
There is a wrestling in my heart and my mind
A disturbance and a tension I cannot seem to drive
And if I'm honest, there's quite a bit of fear
To sit here in this silence and really hear you
What will you ask of me?
Will I listen to your voice when you speak?
Help me to move
Help me to see
Help me to do whatever you would ask of me
Help me to go
Or God help me to stay
I'm feeling so alone here
And I know that you're faithful
But I can barely breathe
God help me
Sometimes things, they are black and white
But sometimes they are not and it leaves us torn inside
And in the middle we are left to wonder
Who we are, what you want and where we're going
Oh, such a mystery
I don't always understand
But I believe
Help me to move
Help me to see
Help me to do whatever you would ask of me
Help me to go
Or God help me to stay
I'm feeling so alone here
And I know that you're faithful
But I can barely breathe
God help me
I don't know the future
It's one day at a time
But I know I'll be okay with your hand holding mine
So take all my resistance
Oh God I need your grace
One step and then the other, show me the way
Show me the way
Help me to move
Help me to see
Help me to do whatever you would ask of me
Help me to go
Or God help me to stay
I'm feeling so alone here
And I know that you're faithful
But I can barely breathe
Oh, God I can barely breathe
Oh, I can barely breath
God help me
Isaiah 41:10
fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness.