If the Son was begotten of the Father, and the Father is God, surely the Son inherits the exact same attributes and nature as His Father? Like Father like Son? The Son when we speak of our Saviour and Lord, was not created as the angels were and therefore a son by creation...nor was he as we are , sons by adoption. No, Christ was a Son begotten in the express image of the Father. And only a Son born in deity could atone for a law given by deity. And only a Son whose life is His own to give, can offer His life a sacrifice for many. Angels as with all created beings could not give their life an offering for sin as their lives belonged to God anyway...their life was not theirs to give. But Christ's life was the life of the Father...self existent...thus He had the power to lay it down as He testified. No created being could atone for a law that He Himself was subject to.[/QUOTE\]
Philippians 2:5- 11 says:
Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus
6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;
8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient
even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;
10 that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of
things in heaven and
things on earth and
things under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Now these scriptures starting at verse 5 show us that the only begotten Son before he became a man existed in God's form, in other words if The only begotten Son is in God's form then obviously he isn't God someone else is. These scriptures continue to show us that although the only begotten Son is in God's form it doesn't cross the Only begotten Son mind that he's equal to God, but he empties himself and becomes a servant in the likeness of men and humbled himself to the point of willingly sacrificing his human life.
Because The only begotten Son was willing to be as obedient as he was right up to death, then when God resurrected him God highly exalts his only begotten Son above every name, that every knee should bow in heaven and on earth(except God) and confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
These scriptures explicitly shows us that Jesus isn't God, why? Cause no one can exalt God's name higher than any other name, it's already and has always been above every name in heaven and Earth. Plus, these scripture don't say the only begotten Son is God, but is in God's form.