If we set aside Trinitarian philosophical assumptions about some essence being passed from God to His Son during word becoming flesh virgin overshadowing by God, which is not found in scripture but formed in the minds of Trinitarians later, there remains a belief we find among the apostles, as found in John 1 and Philippians 2, that something divine preexisted, in form of God, the Word, which became flesh, becoming fully human. Trinitarians assume that the divine essence carried on after this human form was taken. The apostles show no sign, that I have found, of believing this continuation of such an essence of divinity, as understood later by Trinitarians. The only possible sign of such a belief is in Colossians with Christ having fullness of divinity in bodily form. There is no explanation of what was believed about that divinity. It might be like the Trinitarian concept of essence of God. It might not. It is given to believers too, so this implies something not necessarily akin to the Trinitarian concept. It might be more akin to royalty: That the Son has a special status but not anything that affects his human nature. The scriptures are clear that he took full human form, humbler than the divine form. If the divinity in the belief of Paul shown in his letter to the Colossians is akin to royalty, a badge of status, not affecting Jesus Christ’s humanness, then it is not necessarily to belief taught by Trinitarians. The Christ is a human and is the Son of God and fullness of this divine status is embodied in him.
