Was Jesus God before He was born, or did He only become God later in life?

Les explains his own idea that Jesus never stopped being God—He was just as much God in the womb as after birth, and all the way up through His earthly experience. It was under control. When the baby Jesus played with the kids on the block, He did not exert His deity or lord it over the other kids; being God even in the body of a child, He was still able to control the situation and acted like an ordinary child. Even in His earthly ministry, He never let His deity overtake His humanity under circumstances that would have benefited Him, but kept them separate. When He was deity, He was deity; when He was man, He was man. He is alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, and never stopped being the eternal God.