Are you willing to argue that the
Elohim who is speaking in the following verse is the same
elohim which refers to angels?:
"Behold, behold that I am he, and there is no god beside me"
(Deut.32:39).
Are you willing to argue that?
Yes, but before He was made a little lower than the angels He was in the form of God:
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men" (Phil.2:5-7).
Phil.2:1(KJV) If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 Fulfil ye my joy,
that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord,
of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 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. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him,
and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus:
Are we to think we are equal to God?
New International Version
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage
English Standard Version
who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Berean Study Bible
Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to cling to,
Berean Literal Bible
Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider to be equal with God something to be grasped,
New American Standard Bible
who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
King James Bible
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
New International Version
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
New Living Translation
Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.
English Standard Version
who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Berean Study Bible
Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to cling to,
Berean Literal Bible
Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider to be equal with God something to be grasped,
New American Standard Bible
who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
King James Bible
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Holman Christian Standard Bible
who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage.
NET Bible
who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,
New Heart English Bible
who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He who, while he was in the form of God, did not esteem this as a prize, that he was the equal of God,
GOD'S WORD® Translation
Although he was in the form of God and equal with God, he did not take advantage of this equality.
New American Standard 1977
who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
King James 2000 Bible
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be grasped to be equal with God,
American Standard Version
who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Strong's Transliteration Greek English Morphology
3739 [e] hos ὃς who, RelPro-NMS
1722 [e] en ἐν in Prep
3444 [e] morphē μορφῇ [the] form N-DFS
2316 [e] Theou Θεοῦ of God N-GMS
5225 [e] hyparchōn ὑπάρχων subsisting V-PPA-NMS
3756 [e] ouch οὐχ
not Adv
725 [e] harpagmon. be grasped N-AMS
2233 [e] hēgēsato ἡγήσατο esteemed it V-AIM-3S
3588 [e] to τὸ - Art-ANS
1510 [e] einai εἶναι to be. V-PNA
2470 [e] isa ἴσα equal Adj-ANP
2316 [e] Theō Θεῷ, with God,. N-DMS
Rom.11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! 34
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller? 35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
1Cor.2:16
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
