![]() Third, virtually all of the biblical evidence it proposes regards Jesus’s life on earth. ![]() The incarnate Son’s voluntary subordination to the Father implies no eternal subordination. “Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered” (Hebrews 5:8) implies that obedience was not inherent in his status as Son but was a new experience to be “learned,” specifically through his incarnate sufferings, not from some prior subordination. It was not the submission of a subordinate in a hierarchy of authority. Philippians 2:6–8 affirms that Christ relinquished “equality with God” and “made himself nothing … humbled himself and became obedient to death-even death on a cross!” Christ’s submission to incarnation and death was the voluntary submission of an equal for the specific purpose of redemption. The reason for this consensus in orthodox theology is that subordinationism conflicts with Christ’s ontological equality with God the Father as taught in Romans 9:5 Philippians 2:6–11 Colossians 1:15–20 2:9 and Titus 2:13. Erickson’s Who’s Tampering with the Trinity document this in detail. Giles Jesus and the Father and Millard J. 189, states “any implication of subordination ( hupotagē) in the Trinity was completely ruled out by the Fathers of the Constantinopolitan Council … rejecting any difference in Deity, Glory, Power and Being between the Father and the Son.” Kevin N. Torrance’s The Christian Doctrine of God: One Being, Three Persons, p. The subordinationist heresy teaches that the Son is eternally subordinate to the Father. Thomas F. Since the time of Athanasius and the early church creeds, Christian orthodoxy has affirmed that there is one God existing eternally in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in being, power, and glory. Second, the idea of the eternal subordination of the Son goes against the most basic Christian traditions, the creeds. The word “throne” does not occur in Hebrews 1:3, but 1:8 states, “of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.” Revelation 7:17 even describes “the Lamb at the center of the throne.” Revelation 22:3 depicts “the throne of God and of the Lamb” in the New Jerusalem, and Revelation 3:21 and 12:5 depict Jesus Christ on the throne of God. This claim is problematic in several ways. Jesus is at the right hand, but God the Father is still on the throne” ( Recovering Biblical Manhood 457). He writes that the subordination of a wife to her husband reflects the “eternal … subordination in role, but not in essence or being … Scripture speaks of that …. One of the clearest expressions of the idea that God the Son is eternally subordinate to God the Father comes from Wayne Grudem. "The Cross of Wales" is displayed for a photograph ahead of a ceremony to bless the Cross at Holy Trinity Church in Llandudno, north Wales, on April 19, 2023.
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