In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus:
His state was divine,
yet he did not cling
to his equality with God
but emptied himself
to assume the condition of a slave,
and became as men are;
and being as all men are,
he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death,
death on a cross. - Phil. 2:5-8 -
It is not an order that I am giving you; I am just testing the genuineness of your love against the keenness of others. Remember how generous the Lord Jesus was: he was rich but he became poor for your sake, to make you rich out of his poverty. - 2Cor. 8:8-9 -
Let us not lose sight of Jesus who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection: for the sake of the joy which was still in the future, he endured the cross disregarding the shamefulness of it and from now on has taken his place at the right of God's throne. - Heb. 12:2 -
The Lamb that was sacrificed is worthy to be given power, riches, wisdom, strength, honour, glory and blessing. - Rev. 5:12 -
The Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible teaches that our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ was both fully divine and completely human during His earthly life. Theologians have struggled for years to explain this mystery. In the 1800s scholars formulated the Kenosis theory which asserts on the basis of Philippians 2:7 that God's divine "emptied Himself" or laid aside, of certain divine attributes when He became human.
However, these theories of Jesus' INCARNATION have been rejected by orthodox scriptural/biblical scholars. Such views usually boil down to statements that when He became man, Jesus stopped being God or that He was first God then became a man and finally returned to being God after His resurrection.
Grammatically, apostle Paul explains the "emptying" of Jesus in the next phrase: "Taking the form of a servant and coming in the likeness of men". He does not say that Jesus stopped being God or that He gave up any divine attributes.
Although - John 17:5 - shows that Jesus' glory as God's eternal Son was veiled during His incarnation, - Ex. 33:18-20 - we should take the phrase, He emptied Himself, in a figurative sense as a reference to Christ's humility and willingness to "partake of flesh and blood". - Heb. 2:14 - While not ceasing to be God's Son, Christ also became God's Servant - and anyone who wants to be first among you must be your slave, just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. - Matt. 20:28 -
He is the image of the unseen God
and the firs-born of all creation,
for in him were created
all things in heaven and on earth:
everything visible and everything invisible,
Thrones, Dominions, Sovereignties, Powers-
all things were created through him and for him.
Before anything was created, he existed,
and he holds all things in unity.
Now the Church is his body,
he is its head.
As he is the Beginning,
he was first to be born from the dead,
so that he should be first in every way;
because God wanted all perfection
to be found in him
and all things to be reconciled through him and for him,
everything in heaven and everything on earth,
when he made peace
by his death on the cross. - Col. 1:15-20 - 1Tim. 6:13-16 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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