Hebrews 10:5 - Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, But a body did you prepare for me." -- World English.
These words and those following are a partial indirect quotation of Psalm 40:6-8. The writer of Hebrews added the words "but a body thou hast prepared for me." Evidently, this was the basis of the later "Christianized" version of the Septuagint.
It is being claimed, however, that "God prepares a body to dwell in." In other words, it is being claimed that Jehovah prepares a body for Jehovah to dwell in, and Jehovah names Himself in this body, "Jesus." However, it should be obvious that this is not what the scripture says. The author of Hebrews does not write that Jehovah was stating he was preparing a body for Himself to dwell in! While God dwells in Jesus as well as in Jesus' followers, this is not what is being discussed in Hebrews 10:5.
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The words are attributed to Jesus as speaking to someone else who is not Jesus, and saying that some one else had prepared a body for him [Jesus]. Obviously, the one whom the Son is saying prepared the body is his God and Father Jehovah. (Micah 5:4; Ephesians 1:3; Hebrews 1:1,2) However, the Son is not saying that Jehovah prepared a body for Himself, and that he would name Himself Jesus, as is being claimed. Jehovah prepared that body for His Son who is not Himself.
There is definitely nothing in this verse that presents Jesus as being Jehovah, or that Jesus is a person of Jehovah. One does have to add such thoughts to what is said, and then twist what is actually stated to make it appear that Jesus is Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who spoke to and through the prophets of old, and who now speaks through His Son, Jesus. -- Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Acts 3:13-26; Hebrews 1:1,2.
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