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Originally Posted by seekerman
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Philippians 2 has 30 verses. Would you point out where the chapter tells us that Christ is God and man?
There is no scripture supporting your statement that 'as God he set aside all His divine prerogatives and lived the life of a man'. If you have it, please post it. If this is the passage you're attempting to use to support your view, it doesn't work.
Php 2:6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Php 2:7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.
Php 2:8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Php 2:9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, |
Those are "it" and they do work.
Christ is God
Php 2:5 You should have the same attitude toward one another
that Christ Jesus had,
Php 2:6
who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,
Emptied "Divine perogatives"
Php 2:6 who though he existed in the form of God
did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,
Php 2:7
but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.
Php 2:8 He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death — even death on a cross!
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This passage is often called the kenosis passage. Pages could be written on this passage, examining all of the Greek, but I will limit my comments to the most pertinent sections. Paul stated that Christ existed in the form (
morphe) of God, but did not think that it was robbery to be equal with God. This phrase is translated from
ouch harpagmon hesesato to einsai isa theoi. The meaning of
harpogmos, translated "robbery," is "something to take advantage of." Christ did not consider equality with God something to be taken advantage of, but in His incarnation,
Instead of retaining this form, Christ "emptied Himself" (
heauton, "himself," and ekenosen, "made of no reputation"). We get the term "kenosis" from the root of
ekenosen, which is
kenoo. This word is the crucial hinge to understanding the nature of the incarnation.
Ekenosen is in the aorist active indicative, third person singular, meaning that the action here genuinely happened, and that being in the past. Christ actively "kenosed" Himself. "Made of no reputation" is a poor rendering from the Greek. The meaning of the word is to empty; to divest one's self of one's prerogatives, abase one's self; to deprive a thing of its proper functions."
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