Phillippians 2:5-11 brings this
out especially:
“Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ
Jesus: Who being in very nature God did
not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself
nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human
likeness. And being found in appearance
as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even on a cross!
Therefore, God exalted Him to the
highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth
and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the
glory of God the Father.” (NIV)
Notice
Paul says that the nature of Christ is in His “very nature God”(NIV) (Greek, e;n morfh qeou ; NKJV, “being in
the form of God”) With no vague
language, Jesus Christ, in nature, is God.
And being in the very form of God, he willingly took the form (Greek,
morphe) of a servant by becoming a man.
Christ
is God in His very nature. And He
willingly submitted to the Father’s plan of redemption, thus, becoming a man
and the perfect sacrifice for sinners.
There is no hint in the text that Christ is a creature in His
essential nature. He is, in nature,
God. He became a man. “The word became
flesh…” (John 1:14). Christ is God who
became a man.
Quick reply to the above. How can our attitude be
the same as Jesus Christ's here if this text means that Jesus is God?
Answer: This text doesn't mean that Jesus is God at all, it means that Jesus (our
Master) humbled himself and was a Servant. That's all it means, and that's the
attitude we should have too. You added the nonsense about "God
becoming a man." 1) Jesus makes a clear distinction between himself and
God in saying that he didn't think that he should grasp at equality with God.
2) The point is that Satan did think that he could gain equality with
God, and did grasp at it, and Jesus Christ did not. 3) You don't
understand the Greek word "morphe" yet, which means 'nature or image
or reflection of.' It's the same meaning as saying that Adam was made "in
the image of God." 4) John 1:14 also doesn't say that God became a man,
you don't know what "logos" means yet, it says that God's Plan or
Will or Thought is what was made flesh when the Messiah was born.
As
I stated in my first email, this is just another one of the same 17 verses that
we hear all the time. All you are doing is repeating what Trinitarian Sunday
School teachers are teaching all over the world. There is no Scholarship here.
You aren't studying what the Greek words "mean," you are just writing
them down. The Trinity isn't wrong because the RCC teaches it,
the Trinity is wrong because it's not Biblical.