benjosh said:One of the new interpretations that bothers me is what many Christians have done with Phillipians 2: 6 (the verse before and after are given for context)
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.
Here it is in two interpreter's Bibles
who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
New American Standard Bible © 1995 Lockman Foundation
RSV - Phl 2:6 - who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Revised Standard Version © 1947, 1952.
Hey, if Jesus is supposed to be our example. . . . . if we are to be like minded. . . . . . . and his mind couldn't grasp equality with God. . . .
did he cheat on the final exam?
BenJosh
All read the same in that inference of equality defined "in the form of God", which image and likeness was a thing to be grasped. Refer back to Genesis and man's creation in the same equality of "his image and likeness, created he them".
Did he then cheat on his final exam? No. Is there a more perfect truth obtained from the text you provided? Yes.
"And so he in the image and likeness of God did not think it robbery to embrace equality with God".