![]() "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8) had God the Son ever ceased to be omnipresent, He would not be the same yesterday, today and forever! It would be a major change! In fact, it would disprove His Deity, for God cannot cease to be what He Is. This interpretation of Phillipians 2:7 is theologically untenable, for as we saw in the last article, God cannot change His Nature (Malachi 3:6). We'll work backwards, beginning with the last one. ![]() This is Biblical evidence that Jesus ceased to be omnipresent at the Incarnation. This means that He divested Himself of some divine attributes in the Incarnation. Philippians 2:7 says that Christ "emptied" Himself, taking the form of a servant. How can we say that He is "still here" when He has clearly left the earth and promised to return someday? Jesus ascended into Heaven before the very eyes of His disciples (Luke 24:51) and has promised to return to earth in the Second Coming (Acts 1:11). ![]() Therefore, He is only in Heaven, not on earth. The Bible says numerous times that Jesus is at the "right hand of the Father" (See Psalm 110 :1 Mark 14:62 16:19 Acts 2:33 7:55 Romans 8:34 Ephesians 1:20 Colossians 3:1 Hebrews 1:3 1 Peter 3:22). Those who hold this view may use one or more of the following three arguments in an attempt to prove it: Since He still bears His Sacred Humanity in Heaven, they believe He is still limited to that Humanity, and so is only present "at the right hand of the Father" in Heaven. But some insist that He is not, even in His Divine Nature! They do believe He is God, and may even say that He was omnipresent until the Incarnation, when He (allegedly) "limited" Himself to His human nature. Many Evangelicals believe that Jesus Christ Our God is omnipresent.
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