Steve Anderson: God in the Flesh — NOT Omnipotent, Omniscient, or Omnipresent (While On This Earth)
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I'm not sure that the speaker really directly addresses the point of disagreement with Anderson.
The kenosis (Phil. 2:6-8) is not Jesus emptying himself of divine attributes, which omniscience and omnipotence are. Jesus performed miracles: healing the sick, raising the dead, calming storms, etc. And unlike the apostles, he did so on his own authority.
What Jesus emptied himself of was his divine privilege. He laid aside his divine prerogatives and took the form of a servant. If a king were to become a servant, he would not thereby lay aside his humanity; and Jesus, by becoming a man, did not lay aside his divine nature. In the Incarnation, humanity was added to deity, diminishing neither.
And as the following verses say (9-11), because of Christ's humility and obedience in going to the cross, those same glories and privileges that were rightly his, by virtue of his being deity, were again bestowed upon him. Again, in Christ's temporarily laying aside his exalted status, nothing was lost of his nature.
The kenosis (Phil. 2:6-8) is not Jesus emptying himself of divine attributes, which omniscience and omnipotence are. Jesus performed miracles: healing the sick, raising the dead, calming storms, etc. And unlike the apostles, he did so on his own authority.
What Jesus emptied himself of was his divine privilege. He laid aside his divine prerogatives and took the form of a servant. If a king were to become a servant, he would not thereby lay aside his humanity; and Jesus, by becoming a man, did not lay aside his divine nature. In the Incarnation, humanity was added to deity, diminishing neither.
And as the following verses say (9-11), because of Christ's humility and obedience in going to the cross, those same glories and privileges that were rightly his, by virtue of his being deity, were again bestowed upon him. Again, in Christ's temporarily laying aside his exalted status, nothing was lost of his nature.
I'm not entirely sure where I would be in disagreement with Steven Anderson here aside from his "Theology is stupid" statement.
Christ did not set aside or empty himself of his deity (Kenosis) but he was TRULY HUMAN as well as being TRULY DIVINE meaning that his human nature was not omnipresent, omnipotent, or omniscient (Mt 24:36; Lk 2:52; Jn 4:6) yet you cannot separate his human nature from his divine nature so he is, in fact omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. I am not sure how we make sense of all of this so yeah, I feel somewhat like that "exploding dude" in the video!
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Ummm... You want to restate that scripture reference?
Wrong Scripture reference, but I get what you're saying.