Purpose of Christ's 2 Natures

Jesus Christ has 2 natures: the human nature and divine nature. “Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped” (Phil 2:6). This verse speaks about Christ not exercising His powers and divine nature as God being made Himself into a human being. The word “CONSIDER” means “THINK”, “DEEM” OR “REGARD AS”. Even If Christ “thought”, “deemed”  and “regarded Himself as unequal with God”, It DOESN'T mean that He is not equal with God.

The fact that God the Father and Christ are equal is very explicit in the verse. It doesn't say that God and Christ are not equal. It only says that Christ did not consider Himself being equal with God because they are equal in the first place. When he became human, He humbled Himself and submitted to the Father for the purpose of redeeming His people from their sins.  Redemption necessitates Christ’ humility for if He did not humble Himself and became human, there will be no means for man to be saved.  

Christ made salvation possible through His humility. If He remained in His original state as God (In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, John 1:1), and did not become a sinless human being (The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. John 1:14), there is no way for all men to escape hell “for all have sinned and fall short before the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23).

The “penalty of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). If Christ remained in His original state as God and remained with the Father, He can never die and pay for the penalty of sins. Christ went down from Heaven and became 100% human so that He may die and provide a way for man to be saved through faith by placing their trust NOT on what they can do but on His finished work of redemption on the cross.

It is Christ’s own decision to CONSIDER Himself not to be equal with God the Father and that did not preclude their equality. He simply did not “think of Himself” but “think of others” and it was because of this total humility that He has provided a way for man to obtain forgiveness of sins and salvation from God’s impending wrath.