There is a group within the body of Christ known as Tories (Trinity Over-Reactors) who, in order to remove a necessary plank from the Trinitarian position, teach that Jesus Christ did not preexist Bethlehem. According to the Tories, there was no such being as Jesus Christ until He became a cluster of reproducing cells on the uterine walls of a Jewish teenager.

But what about Philippians 2:6-9 where Christ is described in the following manner:

"Who, being inherently in the form of God, deems it not pillaging to be equal with God, nevertheless empties Himself, taking the form of a slave, coming to be in the likeness of humanity, and, being found in fashion as a human, He humbles Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."

This plain passage is obscured (and replaced) by philosophy, personal opinion, unfounded inference, and false equivalences. The Tory explanation of this passage is so convoluted that it cannot be explained in less than a thousand words, and even the Tories themselves admit to the necessity of "getting into the weeds" whenever attempting to explain it.

And yet this verse does not need explained, only believed.

Terry Clemens of Ontario, Canada, has found several contradictions within the Tory camp, and here he presents the latest one from Liam McAllisterr.

But more importantly, a common problem among the Tories lies in the fabrication of a false equivalence between "Son of God" and "form of God." Jesus Christ was and is consistently the Son of God. Even as a baby in Bethlehem, He was the Son of God. It was the FORM OF GOD that He emptied Himself of when He came to be in the likeness of humanity and was found in fashion as a human. At this time, He exchanged the FORM OF GOD for the FORM OF A SLAVE. No two forms could be more different.

As proven here by Mr. Clemens with quotes from the Tories themselves, the Tories consider "Son of God" and "form of God" to be synonymous. And so, since Jesus Christ was most certainly the Son of God while on earth, the Tories also believe that, on earth, He was in the form of God.

Could any two forms be more disparate than that of God and that of a slave? Those of us who realize the truth know the precise point when He laid down the form of God to take the form of a slave: when He came to be in fashion as a human. That is, when He left heaven for earth. At no time, while on earth, was Jesus Christ in the form of God. Had He been, every knee would have bowed THEN, and every tongue confessed Him as Lord. Neither would there have been need for Him to explain, constantly, His relation to the Deity.

At around the 20-minute mark of this episode of MZTV, Mr. Clemens shares an important quote by A.E. Knoch, the translator of the Concordant Version:

"The mere use of the term 'form' should be enough to provethat outwardly He appeared to be another. His exaltation consisted not of actually being that other, but in having the visible appearance proper to the Deity."

The key phrase is, "...having the visible appearance proper to the Deity."

When Christ was on the cross, was His form proper to the Deity? The very thought is disgusting and blasphemous. No, but the form of God was what He put aside to join us in our realm of sin and death, without being a sinner or mortal Himself. On the cross, without question or contradiction, He was, to all outward appearance, in the form of a slave. In fact, His entire earthly sojourn mirrored the dejectedness of a slave. He was NOT a slave, but His deportment would have suggested that of a man undergoing oppressive bondage. For as Isaiah writes in 53:2-3—
 
"He has no shapeliness nor honor that we should observe Him, And no such appearance that we should covet Him. He is despised and shunned of men, a Man of pains and knowing illness, and, as a concealing of faces from Him, He is despised, and we judge Him of no account."

For the Tories to say this is the form of God is the greatest insult that can possibly be levied against the phrase "form of God" which is, again, by definition: "Having a visible appearance proper to the Deity."