Early Christians and Jews definitely did. (Job 38:1-7; Heb. 12:9,10; ACTS 17:28,29;) One example is Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." Here more is involved than merely God's foreknowledge of Jeremiah, for God says that Jeremiah was known, sanctified, and ordained before he was born. Such terms don't make sense if the person that was ordained and sanctified did not yet exist. Another example: John 9:1-3: "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him...who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither this man sinned, nor his parents...etc." This shows that the disciples understood that we had a premortal existence, and were asking whether poor behavior there might result in a curse at birth.Christ does not challenge the assumption of premortal existence.
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