Deity of Jesus There are some doctrines that state the eternal Son of God by virtue of the incarnation

gave up some of all of the divine attributes. This view is primarily based on (Philippians 2: 5-11), especially verse 7, which states that Christ emptied Himself. Other scriptures citied in support of this thesis are (Mark 13:32) that shows Christs ignorance of the time of the end and (John 11:34), seemingly to show Jesus lack of omniscience, as He did not know where Lazarus lay. This doctrine is called kenosis and originally construed to give full justice to the real humanity of Jesus. In reality it is a serious assault on the true deity of Jesus Christ. Most evangelicals have resisted the kenotic view and have replaced it with what may be termed a subkenotic view stating what Christ laid aside in the incarnation was not some or all of the divine attributes such as omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. Instead, what Christ emptied Himself was the independent use of these attributes in order to live a normal human life. His dependence on the Father for strength and wisdom is found such passages as (John 5:19, 30; 6:57). Also, in (Matthew 12:22-30) Jesus is seen casting out demons by the Holy Spirit (Matthew 4:1; Mark 1:1; Luke 4:1) and led by the Holy Spirit. No doubt this is an attempt to safeguard the full humanity of Jesus Christ, while also maintaining His full deity which scripture clearly affirms (John 1:1-14; 8:58; 1 John 5:20; Romans 9:5). Even though Paul gives a clear picture (affirmation) that in Christ all the fullness of the deity dwells bodily (Colossians 2:9) there still may remain some questions or maybe doubts. We must try to reconcile this very high and early Christology with the subkenotic theological understanding of (Philippians 2:5). Lets read this scripture again with a solution which discounts all types of kenotic doctrine concerning Christs deity. The real concern of Paul in Philippians 2 is not a preincarnate Christ who empties Himself in the incarnation, thereby equating the kenosis with His incarnation. Rather, the already incarnate Christ reputation (Phil. 2:5) is referred to as doing something with the expression emptied Himself (Gr. Verb #2758; Heauton ekenosen; kenoo make empty. Paul is thinking in scriptural categories, having Isaiahs prophecies concerning the servant of Yahweh (Jesus) in (Philippians 2:10-11 with Isaiah 45:23). As you see god speaks on Him in (Isaiah) and Jesus being God, this applies to Him also as in (Philippians). The words emptied Himself suggest that the incarnate Christ is to pour out His Life, having taken a position of a servant and already the likeness of humanity, as a fulfillment of Isaiahs conceptual parallel in (Isaiah 53:12): He poured out His soul into death (NKJV). To this Paul adds even the death on the cross (Philippians 2:8 NKJV). In this passage (Philippians 2:5-11) the incarnation is the presupposition of the kenosis. Look at (Philippians 2:9) with (Isaiah 52:13). This shows this servant section to be Pauls source material throughout this Christological passage.