Being in the form of God, thought it not robbery

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Esaias

To add to the discussion... if you look closely you will see in the text that Christ did what Adam was supposed to do, and refused to do what Adam actually did. And as a result, Christ got what Adam was trying to get (but didn't). In fact, Christ got what Adam tried to get by voluntarily submitting Himself to what was forced upon Adam.

The passage is a wonderful statement of Paul's "Adam Christology", that is, of Christ as the Second Adam who recapitulates Adam's history and reverses Adam's failure.

I am filing my taxes today, but wanted to encourage you to write a bit more on this. For instance, when you say, "Christ did what Adam was supposed to do", etc., work that out into more of a Bible study style when you get the chance.