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G^' whichwaswithGod(InGod)becameflesh. Itdoesnotsay
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^ ®Son incarnated. The Trinitarian view destroys the numerical one- s ofGod as taught in scriptures. (SeeIsaiah43:10;44:6^,24;Deuteronomy6:4;
^-^tans320; Jude4; Mark 12:29-30; John 17:3; I John 5:20.)
Jesus, by His own sovereign will, submitted Himself bodily to the hands o niortal sinners. This is the true meaning of the Word becoming flesh. This IS what he humbled himself" means in Philippians 2:8. No one would
expect lower humiliation than the fate reserved for the one who, in the days o His flesh, cried out: "I gave my back to the snriiters, and my cheeks to em that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spittingf'
(Isaiah 50:6).
other words, God the Father, before incarnation and afterincarnation, IS the same God in His moral and non-moral attributes. In the incarnation,
God the Father did not lose His divine nature. The use of "equal" does not indicatethatJesuswas,andis,asecondperson. Ifitis,theBiblewouldhave a contradiction; for God has no equal and there is none like Him (Isaiah
o*5,9; Isaiah 44:8). Moreover, if "equal with" indicates a distinct person apart from God the Father, then Jesus would not merely be a distinct per son from the Father only, but a distinct person from both God the Father and God the Holy Spirit (which Trinitarians deny) for verse 6does not say, "equal with the Father", but "equal with God". According to the Trinitarians and tritheists view, if God is a trinity, and if equality implies a personal distinction, then Jesus is equal to the whole trinity, yet a distinct person from each one of them (Bernard, 1994, 44).
The flesh and blood of Jesus Christ is equal with God the Father
becauseitistheverynatureoftheFatherHimself(Acts20:28). ForJesus as God-Man said, "1 and my Father are one." This means that the flesh and
theSpiritareoneinthemysteryoftheincarnation. Inthiscontext,theprop
er understanding of, "equal with" is found in the Greek word"Isos" which
means "alike" or "the same." Therefore, the word of God which became
flesh and was the only begotten of the Father, and God the Father incarnate is one person (Isaiah 7:13-14; 9:6)
In John 5:18, Jewish leaders accused Jesus of making Himself equal with God. TheywerenotaccusingJesusofcallinghimselfamemberofatriune Godhead, for this was not known to the Jewish mind. As John 10:33 tells us, they were accusing Jesus of claiming to be the Jehovah of the Old Testament "...thou,beingamanmakestthyselfGod". TheyunderstoodHisassertion, but they erred in rejecting that He was God the Father incarnate. The Bible testifies, "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the
world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he powe^to become the sons of
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