eik
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I agree, he wasn't co-equal, as by 1 Cor 11:3 "God is the head of Christ." As Christ affirmed, the Father was greater than he, Jn 14:28.There is simply no way that Christ before or after his ascension was "eternally co-equal" to the Father. Or, for that matter, the holy spirit if you consider the holy spirit God, which we have not discussed.
Yet they are co-equal in somes senses, in that they are both "in the form of God," they are both "on the throne of God" and they along with the Holy Spirit can be "blasphemed" because of their divinity.Christ has the power, and will be giving everything over to the Father in time. Please notice the following scriptures showing that the were no co-equals.
1 Corinthians 15:25-27 (Berean Study Bible) "For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him."
Christ has been GIVEN power. That he had been given power means he did not always have it. He and the Father are not co-equals because his Father GAVE him Matthew 28:18: "Jesus came to them and said: I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth!." He did not grab, or seize power, or lie, as Satan did. Then the Bible says he will turn everything over to the FATHER. (Nothing about holy spirit God there. It is the Son and the FATHER. They're not co-equals in a trinity formation.)
Have a good day, eik.
So of course, I concur with the matter than there is no equality of headship, for the Father is over all (Eph 4:6), but there is equality in the sense that all including the Holy Spirit have the "form of God" which includes coeternity.
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