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I know this question was directed to another poster, but no verse says precisely and woodenly, "Jesus was resurrected as a human," but there are several times in the Gospels after His resurrection when He appeared, obviously in human form ~ tangible flesh and blood ~ to many eye-witnesses, as...

LOL! Ah, more passive aggressiveness... :) You're ticked off; I get it. Okay, again, sorry to have offended. But to answer your question (though you won't or can't do the same; no problem, you're obviously not alone in that), probably for about the same reasons as you, Wrangler. And...

Hm. Well, Webers_Home, I'm not sure we have the same understanding of who true Jews really are, who makes up God's Israel. God's Israel and physical Israel are... not the same. Paul is very clear about it through all his letters. Grace and peace to you.

See my response to your OP in this thread (post 2). Grace and peace to you, Phoneman.

Agreed, but there has been a change in how it is administered; how big everything really always has been, but was only manifest in lesser ways through the lesser covenants, including the Mosaic covenant and including the Sabbath. The advent of Christ changed everything, made everything greater...

Ah, "sophisticated," I see... :) Well, let's analyze it, mixed bag or hodgepodge (or both) that it is, a bit: Actually, I think it was Aunty Jane who said this, despite your post quoting you, and you just agreed with it, right? Not that that's important, but just as a point of order. *...

None of this seems to answer my question, Webers_Home. I would pose the same question to you: Do you think Paul nullified Commandment 4 in Romans 14? I still would say that what Paul says in Romans 14, that "(o)ne person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days...

Absolutely agreed. However, in Hebrews 7-8, we read this (emphasis mine): "For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God...

As mandated by God and effective only prior to the resurrection of Jesus, God's Christ, yes. other Jews who deny Jesus is God's Christ, yes. This is a very disparate thing, WH. You don't think Paul nullified Commandment 4 in Romans 14, do you?

Thank you for all your research. But for you, it's really all a self-fulfilled prophecy, so to speak. If you approach a thing with the preconceived notion of denying it, you're going to to end up doing so. It's a "Whether you think you're going to succeed or fail, you're probably right" sort...

"Forced"... Not at all. But yes, we can say that Jesus had the “absolute essence” and “full nature” of God, because this is essentially exactly what Paul says in Colossians 1:19, that "...in (Christ) all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell." This is the same Paul who wrote to the...

No, you just denied it. :) Which, yeah, anybody can still do. :) Yes, and she was wrong about that. :) So it wasn't so brilliant... :) There are none. Okay. I mean, it matters not, but okay. :) Grace and peace to you.

It clearly and irrefutably is. But you're welcome to your opinion. According to the NWT, which is heretical in places, that passage in Philippians 2 being one of them. Yada yada. Such misdirection. But so be it. Grace and peace to you.

Pffft. See above. :) Well, your pattern of ignorance, yes. :) You're surely not alone, though... :) Grace and peace to you.

No, not in the sense of it being like the thing or in the same shape as the thing ~ that needs some separate treatment ~ but not the thing itself. That's very much not the connotation of the Greek 'morphe.' By the way, that Greek word is where we get the English word 'metamorphosis,' which...

Presumably because he heard Jesus call them by name, maybe. Or maybe when they appeared, Jesus said to Peter, "Dude, look! It's Moses and Elijah! Woo hoo!" :) But we don't know. Is this really important? :) Grace and peace to you.

Well, they're very important to anyone, regardless who they are or what they believe. Yes, words are very important to me, too. We can agree on that, at least. To suggest that words are not important to me or anyone else is quite ridiculous. Not at all. See my response to Tigger above...

It clearly does not mean, woodenly, "to steal Godhood away from the Father." To suppose that is quite ridiculous. 1.) In saying, "though he was in the form of God," Paul is clearly implying that He was already in the form of (morphe' in Greek; the thing itself, especially because he uses the...

Well, I do see "take by force" and "carry off" and "seize" in several instances (since you are into exact words). To not understand those phrases in the sense of holding onto or using would be unfortunate, because that would be consistent and in keeping with Paul's context in that Philippians 2...

Judged in the sense of condemnation? I think not, Matthew. Now, "judged," in the sense that they make judgments that you are wrong... that is more likely the case. But yeah, Jesus came once, and He will come again. To judge the living and the dead, as the creed goes. :) Yes, the judgment ~...