Christ’s incarnation
Philippians 2:6-8 KJV Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Jesus, the Majesty of heaven, He who was equal with God, was in the world thirty-three years, and yet there were but few who acknowledged His divine character. {1SM 69}
Christ humbled Himself from the position of one equal with God to that of a servant. {FE 142.2}
If Christ was dependant on the Father in any way for his Godhood or “equality” then that would make him a lesser being; an unequal. However, both the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy declare them to be equal. Equal means exactly that. Equal! Unless you wish to redefine the word equal.
But although Christ’s divine glory was for a time veiled and eclipsed by His assuming humanity, yet He did not cease to be God when He became man. The human did not take the place of the divine, nor the divine of the human. This is the mystery of godliness. The two expressions “human” and “divine” were, in Christ, closely and inseparably one, and yet they had a distinct individuality. {5BC 1129.3}
He shared the lot of man; yet He was the blameless Son of God. He was God in the flesh. His character is to be ours. {DA 311.4}
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When Christ was crucified, it was His human nature that died. Deity did not sink and die; that would have been impossible.—The S.D.A. Bible Commentary 5:1113.
In the context of the incarnation, Jesus’ human personality; his humanity died but as God he did not die. Ellen White made it clear that would have been impossible.
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He was God while upon earth, but He divested Himself of the form of God, and in its stead took the form and fashion of a man. He walked the earth as a man. For our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be made rich. He laid aside His glory and His majesty. He was God, but the glories of the form of God He for awhile relinquished…. He bore the sins of the world, and endured the penalty which rolled like a mountain upon His divine soul. He yielded up His life a sacrifice, that man should not eternally die. He died, not through being compelled to die, but by His own free will.—The Review and Herald, July 5, 1887.
“I am the resurrection, and the life.” This language can be used only by the Deity. All created things live by the will and power of God. They are dependent recipients of the life of the Son of God.
However able and talented, however large their capabilities, they are replenished with life from the Source of all life. ONLY He who ALONE hath IMMORTALITY, DWELLING IN LIGHT and life, could say, “I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again.” (Manuscript 131, 1897).
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Christ’s relationship as Son to the Father is not biological as the Arians suggest because that would infer that the Father himself is biological which is a term used for physical created species. It is not for us to delve further than what is revealed. Their relationship is simply statedFather and Son.
The Father and the Son (before the incarnation) did not have a physical body. So there’s nothing biological about their father/son relationship.