@PracticalTheolo Oh, you mean how we make arguments based on the grammar, syntax, context, and proper hermeneutics? That’s why there’s so many Trinitarian scholars in the world because we actually know how to read the text properly in context.
@DrAlGarza Trinitarians making arguments based on normal rules of grammar at least has a lot of - what's the word? - oh yes, chutzpah. I'll give you that!
@DrAlGarza The entire passage, which just gets worse and worse for Trinitarians, including its context and the rest of the letter of Philippians, wouldn't fit in the meme. Sorry.
Actually, if you parse it from the Greek, it states clearly that being in the form of God is the same as being God before he put on the form of a slave and set aside his privileges to take the form of a man. That is what the text says, and it is only one of many that refers to Jesus as the God of Israel
It doesn't say that Jesus was God; but was " in the form of God". What is God's form?
John 4: 24 says "God is a spirit '. So are all of God's sons. The Angels are God s sons and spirits also.
It doesn't say that Jesus equal to God; but that he did not consider har·pag·mosʹ; lit., “a thing to be seized” it is derived from the verb har·paʹzo, which has the basic meaning “to seize; to snatch.” Some have suggested that this term refers to retaining something already possessed. However, the Scriptures never use the Greek term to mean the holding on to something already in one’s possession. Rather, it is often rendered “seize” or “snatch (away)” or by other such expressions. (Mt 11:12; 12:29; 13:19; Joh 6:15; 10:12, 28, 29; Ac 8:39; 23:10; 2Co 12:2, 4; 1Th 4:17; Jude 23; Re 12:5)
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