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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