Now to the responses
hi chalam
you quoted phil 2:5-8 earlier this is simply addressed by looking at what is meant by the word 'Form/nature' used here. The Greek word ‘morphe’ means an image, impress or resemblance. Human beings are spoken of as having “a form (‘morphe’) of Godliness” (2 Tim. 3:5). and again being in the form of somethings means you are not that something.
Then chalam you then go down the same route as bible Jim saying god can only be saviour but does the bible explain this apparent contradiction? before putting our own explanation on it?
Acts 5:31
God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
Acts 13:23
"From this man's descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as he promised.
God made Jesus the saviour and provided us the saviour so god himself is the source of that saviour so again the bible shows that is how this is explained. Jesus as Gods messenger and representative can do things on gods behalf including being the saviour sent by God.
John 17:3 (New International Version)
3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Genesis 18 (American Standard Version)
1 And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
2 and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth
Interesting how Jehovah appeared to Abraham as three men?! - chalam
lol you actually made me read the whole chapter becasue I wanted to be clear on this one and there was the answer :)
genesis 18 22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD. [ e ] 23 Then Abraham approached him and said: "Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare [ f ] the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge [ g ] of all the earth do right?"
26 The LORD said, "If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
but the men went to sodom and yet abraham is still talking to god? why did they need to goto sodom?
Genesis 19 (New International Version)
1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 "My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning."
"No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square."
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.
well here we go the the men arrive at sodom and look they are actually angels, which suggests this is clearly a case of bible representing angels as God doing his work and talking for him. the 3rd angel had stayed back with abraham discussing sodom with abraham trying to save sodom.
Notice they ate with lot too lol these angels like their food :) as a side point this clearly shows angels can make themselves physical bodies that can eat as humans.
