Zemirah wrote:
I posted this previously; it answers the verses you mistakenly claim prove lack of deity.
I reposted because Parky claimed that I had deleted my original post... And he therefore couldn't respond to it...
Hence my use of his name at the beginning of the post...
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Jesus emptied Himself of the qualities of deity you're screeching about being lacking, while He was here incarnate, resuming those powers upon His return to His eternal heavenly home, at God the Father's side, from whence He had come to earth.
An interesting premise...
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[Jesus Christ] "Who, though he was God, did not demand and cling to his rights as God, but laid aside (while on earth) his mighty power and glory, and emptied Himself, taking the form of a s***e and becoming like men." (Philippians 2:6-7)
No offense...But Phillippians 2:6-7 has been addressed before... I agree that it's a great verse... But it doesn't support your stance...
If you thought it had been inadequately addressed you could have illuminated us as to your understanding...
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1. He emptied Himself of glory (while here on earth). In John 17:5, Jesus prayed, “Glorify me...with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.” He gave up the adoration of the saints and angels when He came into this world.
Hebrews 1:3-6 seems to contradict you're interpretation..
"Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him."
Hmmm... He was created... Then the angels of God were told to worship him...
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2. He emptied Himself of His independent authority (while here on earth). In John 5:30, Jesus said, “I can do nothing on My own.”
He brought Himself into a different relationship with the Father, where ALL of His activities and actions had to be cleared in that unusual way.
Though equal with the Father, now temporarily uniquely submissive to God the Father.
He never claimed otherwise.. Nor did he state there was ever a time when he had or would be able to do otherwise... This verse doesn't support your premise... Find the verse that states he was only temporarily submissive to God...
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3. He temporarily released the voluntary exercise of His divine attributes. Compare John 1:43–51 with Matthew 24:36 to see how Jesus sometimes was omniscient and sometimes not (while on earth).
Ridiculous... One cannot be temporarily omniscient...
Matthew 24:36 literally states that only God knows...
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4. He gave up eternal riches... the treatment that the Son of God, the King of the universe, gets in heaven.
Yet 2 Corinthians 8:9 says, “...though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.”
Reading quite a bit into that verse...
One might argue that there is no sacrifice in temporarily and voluntarily relieving oneself of one's wealth....
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5. He gave up His intimate relationship with the Father (when on the cross). Who can describe the fellowship that exists between the first and second Person of the Trinity?
...And to hear Jesus on the cross in Matthew 27:46 beseeching, “My God, why have You forsaken Me?” He made Himself nothing — for you and for me (while here on earth).
Wow! So the Trinity became a Duality for a short period of time
Bet that messed with the universe... Which state of water at so and so pressure and such and such temperature do you think ceased to exist?