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But to proceed , this writer adds concerning JesuS Christ that the JNew Testament asserts him to be " the pre-existent Creator of the universe , equal with God the Father , " Where are such assertions to be found in that book ? As to the first of them the passage referred to 5 Col . i . 15—17 , has neither the . terxn pre-existe 7 tt Urea tor , nor universe in it . How thei > can it assert 'that Jesus Christ is the pre-existent Creator of the universe ? Nor is it asserted in any other passage in the sacred writings . / ic
As to the other assertion that . Christ is God , equal with God the Father / ' there is not anything like it in the New-Testament . In Phil . ii . 6 . ( the passage referred to ) he is neither said to he God , nor to be equal with God the Father . The words in the common translation are , QX Who being in thejQjrm of God , thought it not robbery to be equal with God / ' That this is not , however , a just rendering of the original will appear from the following ; considerations , l . —It opposes the design o £
the Apostle ^ who had before said , * Look not every man oi \ his own things , but every man also on the things of others , let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus / ' and then 5 in the words under consideration , he informs them what that mind was that he might stimulate the Philippians to an imitation of it . Now is it possible to suppose that the apostle meant
to exhort them to think themselves equal with God , and to esteem it no robbery to think so ? Yet this must be his meaning if this be a true rendering of the words * 2 . —I £ there be but one God , to say tliat he is equal with himself is unmeaning and Absurd ; but if there be a God , and there is another being who is also God equal with him , then there are two Gods , and the position that God is one is not true . 3 . —Jesus Christ positively asserts his inferiority to the Father , John xiv . 28- " My Father is greater than I . " When the Jews charged him with
< c making himself God , he answered them saying , " I said , I am the Son of . God . " John x . 33- 36 . Now th ^ s was either a direct denial of the fact , or an unjustifiable evasion of it . , The true rendering , probably , is , ' * Who though he were in the Form of God , was not tenacious of retaining that likeness to Go ^ if but emptied himself . ' * The word ou ^ nouy ^ QL does not mean rob
bery 7 but a prize , something in . a person s possession that is esteemed valuable nnd not readily to be parted with * Such was the form of God to Jesus , yet when for the salvation of mankind it was necessary to part with it , he did not contemplate : his own glory , he did not , in the words of the apostle , look oa his owi ) things , he was not tenacious of retaining that likeness ,
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An Examination of the Remarks on Stone * s SerpiGn * 23 ' ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/13/
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