JESUS CHRIST: GOD-MAN - Vital Christianity

Even if we were to grant that God the Son had a name before His birth as a baby, why
assume that "Michael" was His name? God challenged His hearers with the question:
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"To whom then will you compare Me or shall I be equal? (Isa 40:25)
No archangel would qualify since an archangel would be a created being and thus not on
the same plane with an uncreated divine Creator. Jesus sets Himself apart from the angelic world
repeatedly. One example is His announcement about the uncertainty of the time of His return:
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the
Son, but only the Father" (Mk 13:32).
Jesus Christ is above angels as is argued at explicit length at the beginning of the Epistle
to the Hebrews. This book demonstrates forcefully the preeminence of Jesus over angels as well
as people. By what kind of logic can one identify Jesus as "a god" and at the same time refer to
Him as "an angel," even an "archangel" or "chief prince" (Da 10:13)? Such terms in reference
to angels are quantitative. Jesus, even if He were only "a god," would be qualitatively different.
He would belong to a radically different order.
To identify Jesus as an archangel because He is superior among the angelic world would
make as much sense as identifying a human being like John the Baptist as an angel since he is
"the greatest man that ever lived" according to Jesus (Lk 7:28). There is a giant leap from the
angelic world to the world of divinity just as there is a giant chasm between the world of angels
and people.
If Michael and Jesus Christ are the same, that would mean that there are other beings
equal in authority to Christ. It is not necessarily true that because Messiah and Michael are both
referred to as "princes" that they must be the same person. The same Hebrew word translated
"prince" which is given to Michael is also given to Abner (2 Sa 3:38), who was not even a
member of human royalty. Would this mean that Michael, the archangel, and Abner, the military
general, were the same person because both were described as "princes"?
While the Greek word arch can mean "ruler," in and of itself this hardly serves to
demonstrate that Jesus Christ and Michael, the archangel, are the same person. There is no
evidence in Scripture that Michael exercised any kind of authority over the rest of God's angels.
Matthew 25:31 which mentions the "Son of Man" coming in His glory with all His angels does
not even mention Michael. Nor is there any parallel with Genesis 1:28 where man is given
dominion over "every living creature" on the earth. Michael is nowhere mentioned as having
been given the same sort of dominion over the angelic hosts as Adam was over the animal
kingdom.
Although the expression, "The Lord rebuke you" occurs in both Zechariah 3:2 and
Jude 9. The Lord Himself speaks in Zechariah while Michael, the archangel, is the speaker in
Jude. This, however—making the same statement to the same individual—does not prove that