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Doctrine
Evangelical
In What Way Did Jesus "Empty Himself" in the Incarnation? | Dr. Steve Duby
Theologian
Steven J. Duby
Duration
2.56
Uploaded to YouTube
30 June 2022
Added to Database
10 November 2025
YouTube description
Did Jesus give up something of his divinity when he took on flesh?
Quite the opposite, Dr. Duby believes that Jesus' taking on flesh in the incarnation was an "emptying not by subtraction, but by addition, by Jesus taking on something that is lowly and so unlike the high and majestic nature of God in which he already existed from eternity."
Watch this video to understand better how in the incarnation Jesus remained fully God and fit to save us.
For more on this topic, check out Dr. Duby's new book, Jesus and the God of Classical Theism: https://ps.edu/jesus-and-the-god-of-classical-theism/
