I asked that because whether we like it or not, that cell on the womb of Mary was that God on the flesh and that God on the flesh whom God the creator was talking with before birth. He could not be different from that God on Mary's womb because if that was the case, there will be 4 Gods during the event.
God the Son became flesh.
It does not mean God the Son changed and became a man. It means the Son was manifested in the flesh. God the Son only took the form of a man, but He is still by His very nature God the Son.
If an angel took the form of a man, the angel would still be an angel. Only the form would be human, but the true nature remains an angel. If you wear a lion costume, you wouldn't become a lion, you would still be a man.
The original Greek in John 1:14 says "egeneto." It means to come into being or into manifestation.
Thus, 1 Tim. 3:16 clarifies:
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.The original Greek is "phaneroo," which means to appear or to make visible.
Therefore, 1 Tim. 3:16 says God the Son was "manifest" in the flesh, meaning He appeared to us as a man.
It means God the Son merely appeared on earth as a human, but His nature remained God the Son.
That is why Col. 2:9 says:
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form. The visible bodily form is human, but in Him is the fullness of the Deity.
Compare that with an ordinary man. In the case of ordinary men, the visible bodily form is human, but in the body is still human, not God.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? (1 Cor. 2:11) In the ordinary man is the spirit of man, not the fullness of the Deity.
That is why Phil. 2:6-8 says about Christ:
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!- Christ is
in His very nature God.
- He is
equal to God, but He did not consider this equality as something to be used to His own advantage.
- He was
made in human likeness. Not a human, but only in the
likeness of a human. If He were already human, then He would by nature already appear human, so why would He still have to take human likeness?
- He was
in the appearance of a man. Not a man, but only in the
appearance of a man. A God would have to take the appearance of a man, because He is not a man in His very nature.
He is God who took the appearance of a man and by doing so became "manifest in the flesh."