It is claimed that Hebrews 2:9 says that Jesus was made for a while “lower than the angels” at his incarnation, which word in trinitarian terminology is used to mean the doctrine that the alleged second person of the alleged trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is therefore completely both God [Supreme Being] and man [human being], possessing two alleged natures at once. Do we find anything of such an idea in Hebrews 2:9? No, at all!
Hebrews 2:9: but we do see Jesus crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death was made a little less than the angels, so that by the grace of God He might taste of death for all. — Jay Green’s Literal Translation.
In context, we find how all had been subjected to man, although, as yet, we do not see all as having been put under man's dominion. (Genesis 1:26; Psalm 8:5-8; Hebrews 2:7,8) Evidently, as scriptures elsewhere related, the subjection of all to man has been delayed due to Adam's disobedience. -- Romans 5:12-19.
Although we do not yet see all subjected to man, we are able to see that Jesus was made man, having the crown of glory that is a little lower than the angels, as Adam had before Adam sinned. When Adam sinned, he fell short of the glory he had. (Romans 3:23) Jesus, however, was born into this world without the condemnation of Adam, since God prepared a body for Jesus apart from that condemnation. -- Hebrews 10:5.
If Jesus, unlike Adam, remained obedient to God, he had the price necessary to offer to God to buy back what Adam had lost for himself and the whole race that has descended from him. And this relates to what is written in Hebrews 2:9. There we find that the man, Christ Jesus, gave himself in sacrifice to God; he died for every man. The price needed to redeem man was not, as many claim, the sacrifice of God Almighty Himself to Himself, but rather what was needed to offset what Adam had done was another sinless man who, unlike Adam, remained obedient.
What the trinitarian has to imagine, assume and add to this verse is that it is really saying that Jesus, while he was a little lower than the angels, was at the same time the Most High, above the angels and all creation. They do this by imagining and assuming their “hypostatic union” doctrine and imagining and assuming their “incarnation” doctrine, and then adding those imagined assumption to the scripture and reading those imagined assumptions into the scripture.
The trinitarian, and many others, would then negate the human sacrifice of Jesus by the claim that Jesus is still a man, being, as they would imagine and assume, 100% Supreme Being and 100% human being at the same time. Of course, no such thought is ever presented anywhere in the Bible.
Jesus is not described in Hebrews 2:9, or anywhere else in the Bible, as an incarnation; like the added-on trinitarian dogma itself, the added-on incarnation doctrine has to be imagined, assumed, added to, and read into Hebrews 2:9, as well as any other scripture that might be presented to allegedly support the added-on doctrine, and then by use of the added-on assumptions of the incarnation doctrine, the added-on assumption of the alleged “hypostatic union” are also imagined, assumed and added to the scritpure, so as to make the scripture appear to harmonize with the added-0n trinitarian dogma, or some other dogma about Jesus.
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