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Originally Posted by Zezima
If you’re born of something, don’t you have the nature of that said thing?
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Yes, sure. E.g. we could say that we are our parents, yet we are not our parents.
We are made in the image and likeness of God. We are also born of His Spirit. We are even to be transformed from glory to glory. Peter says we are partakers of His nature.
The entire basis of our belief system as Christians is the Bible, and more specifically that which the Spirit of God has decided to inspire in the many diverse writers of scripture. Consider all that God could have inspired. I believe this was specifically decided by the counsel of God. Many verses (and entire books) confirm this (e.g. 2 Peter 1.21 or John 15.26).
So we should content ourselves with what we have received, and not go beyond what is written. There much danger lies using speculations and inferences.