Philippians 2:5-6: Jesus is God and Forever Human




5: Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus 6: Who existing in the [physical] form of God[1] deemed it no ill-gotten-gain[2] to exist equally with God


[1] All the fullness of the Godhead dwelled in Jesus in physical form Colossians 2:9

[2] The Greek word, harpagmos, is a noun. A noun is a person, place, or “thing.” Curiously, though, in Philippians chapter two, translators consistently [erroneously] render, harpagmos, as a verb—an action word: e.g., something “to be grasped at” (action), or “robbery” (action) rather than the already existing thing (noun) that it is. Jesus does not consider his intrinsic equality and existing (a continuous, ongoing, action) as God to be ill-gotten-gain (a static thing), because walking in that equality is already intrinsically his. 2 John :7, confirms that Jesus’ appearance in the flesh is a permanent thing. The perfect tense it is written in, “is come,” encompasses not just his past and future comings, but his entire existence as a human. The One Mediator between God and man—the man—Christ Jesus, even now sits at the right hand of the Father interceding for his own. Paul wrote that the fullness of the Godhead resides in Jesus in physical form, and John confirmed Paul when he wrote that Jesus came in the flesh, died in the flesh, rose in the flesh, is coming again in the flesh, remains forever in the flesh, and anyone who says otherwise, speaks from a spirit of anti-Christ 2 John :7. Jesus is God. God never changes. The Godhead never changes. And, at no time, did the WORD, Jesus, ever give up his eternal equal existence within the Godhead—not even when he entered the kosmos in human flesh.  

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