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NASB | Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is [eternally changeless, always] the same yesterday and today and forever. |
Subject: jesus born prior to earth? |
Bible Note: ElderCascade, please allow me to make one point clear. I have never said, on this forum or anywhere else, that Jesus existed in bodily form before His incarnation. The term "pre-existence of Christ" doesn't mean, refer to, or even hint at the idea that Christ existed in bodily form at any time before the incarnation. On the contrary it is a positive affirmation of His divinity. He is none other than God Himself. Exegesis on John 1:1 from John MacArthur: "The Greek construction emphasis that the Word had all the essential attributes of deity, i.e., the Messiah was fully God (cf. Col 2:9). Even in His incarnation when He emptied Himself He did not cease to be God but took on a genuine human nature/body and voluntarily refrained from the independent exercise of the attributes of deity." --MacArthur Study Bible, p.1573, Word Publishing. --Hank |