I believe then that you logic is flawed. Reading one of your later responses shows why. You think God takes a dump but it is the body that does that. The Spirit does not even have to pay attention to that. You are right that the limitations of the body do limit God while inside the body but God is everywhere so He is not limited outside of the body. My wife once asked the question "if God is in Jesus then who is running the Universe." The answer is simple because God is everywhere He is still able to rule the universe.
I believe then yo should be familiar with this verse:
Phil 2:7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
I believe that doesn't happen. It is just people misunderstanding the Bible that think it has contradictions.
Phil 2 is a wonderful chapter. That is one of many verses that people take out of context too. Alot of people think it is God taking on a form of a man. Which is not good. God does not bring himself down to our level, we are suppose to bring ourselves up to him. Our minds our suppose to think of spiritual things and be lifted up to him and not down to think of earthly ways. That is why separation is all through scripture. But I think you were talking about verses 6-8?
6 Who,
being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was
made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man,
he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
What bible are you reading from? I was looking at
KJV, which is different from yours alittle. But no worries. That's fine.
Verse 6 "Being in the form of God'. Great verse. But it doesnt mean that Jesus was God or very God. How was Christ in the form of God? He had the semblance and demeanour of the Father mentally and morally. His character was the express image of his Father's person. (Heb. 1:3). We are suppose to manifest our God's charactor in us too. To have a spiritual mind as Paul puts it.
"Thought it not robbery to be equal with God" is generally acknowledged to be a poor translation. The R.S.V. reads as follows: "He did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped."
Unlike Eve who grasped after the fruit which was to be desired to make one like God (
the "elohim") to know good and evil,
Jesus refused to take the kingdoms of the world without the crucifixion of the flesh and the declaration of the righteousness of his Father. In the Garden of Gethsemane he subjected his will to his Father's, not arrogating to himself prerogatives that rightly belonged to his Father. (
Matt. 26:39).
We know that Jesus gave God the glory in everything that he did. Everything. The Jews thought that Jesus was saying that he was equal or that he was God, but they didnt understand and Jesus DID put them in their place. But '
being in the form of God" is a good thing. That is what we strive for too. Being like God and being like Jesus.
"Being born in the likeness of men". Should be, "made in the likeness of men". Great verse. Shows us that Christ was like us. Was born a man, same nature. Heb 2. Even in the OT everyone knew that the "coming" Messiah was going to be a man like them. Deut 18 and 2 Sam 7. Too many Psalms to list too.
That's like saying that Jesus is God because he said that he and the father are one. If that's the case, we are part of a Trinity too.
Look at John 17, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father,
art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;
that they may be one, even as we are one:
23
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Even when we get baptized, we are now "
in Christ". We are now in a covenant relationship with our Heavenly Father.
