Monday, January 20, 2014

Philippians 2:5 and 6

...for you must think this in you which (is) also in Christ Jesus, who being-from-the-beginning in (the) form of God did not lead (his mind to regard it as his) catch to be equals with God.

·         Christ Jesus did not lead his mind to regard it as his catch (Christ Jesus did not take the initiative, cause it to be in his mind to view it as being an object of seizure for him to carry-off for his own purposes, to have in his domain, something to be snatched and taken suddenly away as his booty, plunder, spoil, pillage, as his reward for victory in war)

o   to be equals with God (to exist being equals with God).

The word "equals" is in the plural form in the Greek texts and emphasizes total-equality. It denotes equal-things, being equally proportioned, equality in measure, quantity, quality, amount, number, etc.

Jesus did-not and still does-not regard that to be equals with God is something to be taken by him as booty, as though he were identical in value and in relation to/with God, as though he were the same entity, as though he also was a god and could take God's place! That idolatry is what the first man, Adam, grasped at attaining when he listened and believed and obeyed the lie of the serpent/devil trying to usurp the only true God’s position (refer to Genesis chapter 3).


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