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One difficulty in this for the human mind is that we’re prone to think of divinity and human in mutually exclusive terms. We might speculate, If he “became man,” he must have ceased, in some sense, to be God. Then we come across a text like Philippians 2:7, that he “emptied himself,” and ask, Did he empty himself of attributes of deity? The expression is not what he emptied himself of; it’s an idiomatic way of saying he became a nobody, he humbled himself completely, not only to become a human being, but to go all the way to the ignominy and shame and torture of the cross. . . . It’s talking about the astonishing, unequal, unimaginable, indescribable, self-humiliation in becoming human and then going so far not only to be a slave, but a slave who dies on the cross. The incarnation remains a great mystery, but Scripture does not leave everything enigmatic.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 08:45:52 +0000

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