"God in life and nature but not in the Godhead"

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Freedom

Philippians 2 is a passage that I appreciate very much, and it really demonstrates just how absurd WL’s deification theology really is. Of all people, Jesus was the one person who had every right to go around and promote himself as the “acting God” on earth, but he didn’t do that. As it says, Jesus did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation... This is the Jesus whom the apostle Paul considered himself to be an imitator of.

While LCers are busy trying to become God in life and nature but not the Godhead, they have forgotten about Jesus' example and message. Jesus was willing to take the form of a bondservant. He was self-emptying. He set forth an example of humility. This is the example that we have to follow.

Right. It is interesting that Jesus didn't think his equality with God was a big deal. Rather believing in Him, because his works testify of the Father is the big deal.

Jesus cited verse 6 of this Psalm (82, with verse 6 highlighted by me):

God takes His stand in His own congregation; He judges in the midst of the rulers. How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah.
Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Rescue the weak and needy; Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. They do not know nor do they understand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
I said, “You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High. “Nevertheless you will die like men and fall like any one of the princes.”

Now here is the account (John 10:22-39) where He cited it:

At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon. The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me. But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”

The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?” The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God." Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your Law, 'I SAID, YOU ARE GODS '? "If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God '? If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.” Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp.