The Reconciler of Sinners (Col 1:19-20)
December 22, 2024
December 22, 2024
People often look at Philippians 2:7 to suggest that Jesus left behind or set aside His power and walked as a man in order to suggest that we too can walk like Jesus doing what he did in His earthly ministry, namely signs and wonders, just as he did as people filled with the Holy Spirit. Many hover near kenotic heresy without realizing it. It seems to me that this passage in Colossians disputes such a claim. And not only this, but there is the matter of Christ in conjunction with the Father and the Spirit raising himself from the dead. And many other examples clearly laid out. We seek our own glory.
Indeed. I believe both the Philippians and Colossians hymns are meant to be read as tensions rather than resolutions. He was fully divine with all the power that implies and yet humbled and emptied of all majesty. Paul “solves” paradoxes with songs and allows the truths to hang unresolved.