Christology and The Person of Christ

I would consider myself to have an adoptionist view of Christ. I see Christ as a Man, called upon to do the work of God. To me he is more than a prophet, as using divine powers when he worked miracles, but is he God incarnate? To this I have to reply that my understanding is that while he had access to power, that somehow the logos, (that is the Greek understanding of the wisdom/creative power of God described and attested by Jewish literature and the Old Testament), was given in a limited way to the person Jesus, he is not God. That is not so say that I do not believe him to have divine nature, but that I do not hold Jesus to be God.

The transfiguration story, to me is not a story attesting the return of God incarnate to divine; I have a more eastern, perhaps even Buddist view of this story. My understanding of the text is that Jesus, having achieved perfection as a man, through his work and by submitting to the will of God, ascended to a higher form of existence, that brought him closer to the divine. Therefore I do not believe Jesus to be pre existent, in that he existed with God and God created through him, I believe that the power of the logos pre existed and was transferred to the Man Jesus in order for him to carry out the work that God intended for him to do.