Christianity is curiously Platonistic about Christ: he is the one man who pre-exists his conception and birth. "Before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:58) But no such Platonism about any other human, not even Mary, Theotokos (God-bearer).
If, as Chalcedonian orthodoxy has it, Jesus Christ is fully man and fully God, then he is man and a man. (There is a riddle here respecting man and a man, both in Christ and in Adam, which I won't pursue here.)
What tense is the 'exists' in 'pre-exists' and the 'am' in the Johannine verse? What should we call it? The eternally present tense?