Take a battery, some insultated wire, and a nail and assemble a simple electromagnet. None of the parts were posessed of magnetism until all the parts came together, and a chemical reaction happend. Is that magnetism a chemical creation?
If we believe that Jesus was the Son of God, and we believe that we also are sons and daughters of this same God, then we must believe that we have similar spiritual roots as jesus (all of us being descendants of God).
Thus, if Christ is declared to have existed before the laying of the foundations of the earth, then doesn’t it follow that so must we?
Gen. 3:13-15, Gen. 49:10, Job 19:25-29, Num. 24:5-7, Jos. 5:13-15, Ps. 2:7-12, Ps. 22, Ps. 110:1, Pro. 30:1, Isa. 9:6-7, Isa. 53, Dan. 3:24-25, and Dan. 9:24-27