Featured Jesus Christ The God-Man

The Greek word used in Philippians 2:7, is "ὁμοίωμα", which means, "likeness i. e. resemblance" (Thayer Greek Lexicon; Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon, etc). What this means is, that Jesus Christ was "like" any other human, when you saw Him, but essentially was not, as He was after His Incarnation, always fully God and fully Man, except sin, The God-Man, and not just another mere human being. How can you call someone who is "God in the flesh", a "human being"? When He is Almighty God manifested in the flesh, as 1 Timothy 3:16 says? Jesus' human nature is very real, as He is consubstantial with us, except sin. It is because that He is always MORE than just a Man. As I said, His "body" is no "phantom" as the Gnostics taught, but very real. I have used Biblical language as the Greek says, so it is not my personal "theology".

This is what the Greek scholar Dr A T Robertson says:

In the likeness of men (εν ομοιωματ ανθρωπων). It was a likeness, but a real likeness (Kennedy), no mere phantom humanity as the Docetic Gnostics held. Note the difference in tense between υπαρχων (eternal existence in the μορφη of God) and γενομενος (second aorist middle participle of γινομα, becoming, definite entrance in time upon his humanity).

And, Dr M R Vincent

Was made in the likeness of men (ἐν ὁμοιώματι ἀνθρώπων γενόμενος)
Lit., becoming in, etc. Notice the choice of the verb, not was, but became: entered into a new state. Likeness. The word does not imply the reality of our Lord's humanity, μορφή form implied the reality of His deity. That fact is stated in the form of a servant. Neither is εἰκών image employed, which, for our purposes, implies substantially the same as μορφή. See on Col 1:15. As form of a servant exhibits the inmost reality of Christ's condition as a servant - that He became really and essentially the servant of men (Luk 22:27) - so likeness of men expresses the fact that His mode of manifestation resembled what men are. This leaves room for the assumption of another side of His nature - the divine - in the likeness of which He did not appear. As He appealed to men, He was like themselves, with a real likeness; but this likeness to men did not express His whole self. The totality of His being could not appear to men, for that involved the form of God. Hence the apostle views Him solely as He could appear to men. All that was possible was a real and complete likeness to humanity. What He was essentially and eternally could not enter into His human mode of existence. Humanly He was like men, but regarded with reference to His whole self, He was not identical with man, because there was an element of His personality which did not dwell in them - equality with God. Hence the statement of His human manifestation is necessarily limited by this fact, and is confined to likeness and does not extend to identity. “To affirm likeness is at once to assert similarity and to deny sameness” (Dickson). See on Rom 8:3.

 

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The "Second Person" in the Trinity, Who is 100% Almighty God, and 100% coequal with the "First Person" and "Third Person", existed from all eternity in the Eternal Godhead or Divine Nature

At the Time of The Incarnation when Jesus Christ, The Second Person in the Godhead, was Conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary, He "took upon Himself the very Nature" of us humans, actually derived from Mary, with the exception of any sin. At this time, and thereafter, Jesus Christ never for a single moment, ever cease to be Almighty God, YHWH, for this is something that is impossible for Him to have done. He IS always, continually, in "the very Nature of God".

It is NOT, that The Second Person in the Godhead, only "indwelt" a human "body" or "shell", and fully "changed" into a "human". NO, at the Time of the Incarnation, the Eternal Second Person, "The Word of God", Who IS Himself also "God", "added" to His Divine Nature, 100% sinless Human Nature, on the One Human Body, and He IS The One Person, the God-Man.

The ONLY "Attribute" that Jesus Christ "gave up" at the Incarnation, and during His earthly life, is the "equality in Glory" that He always had with the Father. This is very clear from John 17:5, and Hebrews 2:9. There were times in the Gospels, where Jesus Christ did and said things as God; and there are times, where He did and said things as a Human.

The Incarnation is what the Apostle Paul calls, "The Mystery of Godliness", that "God was manifested in the flesh"; and John says, "The Word was God...and the Word became flesh and lived among us".

 

very much WRONG!

God Who is Eternal, CANNOT "die", this is the very reason that God was manifested in the flesh!

It is the PERSON, The God-Man, Jesus Christ, Who died on the Cross, according to His Human "Nature".

"But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of His suffering death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone"

God cannot "die", so He "took upon Himself" the very Nature of Humans, in Jesus Christ, so that He could "die"

In 1 Peter 3:18 we read, "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit"

Jesus Christ was able to "suffer" because He was put to Death "in the flesh", something quite impossible for Almighty God.

 

The Second Person in the Godhead, The Lord Jesus Christ, IS eternally YHWH, the Unchanging Almighty God, as IS The Father and The Holy Spirit.

When Jesus Christ was Conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary, He did not "give up", or "empty Himself" of Being The eternal God. This would mean that He CHANGED from Deity to Human, and He would have walked on this earth as a normal human being!

There are things that we see in the Gospels, like "growing in wisdom", becoming "thirsty", and "tired", and "not knowing some events", and the need to "rest, sleep", that are NOT from the Divine Nature of the One Person, Jesus Christ, but the Human Nature, as we are. We also read that Jesus forgave sins, walked on water, Spoke as The Great I AM, accepted Worship, knew all things, told people what was in their thoughts and heart, said that He was equal with the Father, and to be Honored as the Father is, etc, none of these can be true of Jesus' Human Nature, but only of His Divine Nature, as Almighty God

 

Can Almighty God die?