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Originally Posted by Drake
...those who have received His life and nature and are growing with the growth of God are becoming God in life and nature.
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Drake,
I'm trying to understand how you get from point A to point Z on this train of logic. It's like there are steps missing in the middle. Can you help fill them in?
Your claim (A) is that we have received His life and His nature.
1. Where does the Bible say we have the life of Christ?
2. Where does the Bible say we have received His nature?
Your conclusion (Z) is that we are thus becoming God in life and nature.
3. Where does the Bible say this translates into "becoming" God both in life and in nature?
I'm not trying to challenge you like I have in other threads. I'm trying to follow the reasoning. I can think of a few verses that might reasonably fit the bill here, but I'd rather understand your/LSM/Witness Lee's logic since you are the one making the claim.
I google "we have the life of Christ" and no verses come up, but numerous LSM-related sites come up.
Remember, God's life is truly immortal; impossible to die - no beginning and no end. Arrows infinitely to the left (past) and infinitely to the right (future). He is an uncreated being.
Ours is not, cannot, and will not ever be like that. It IS possible for us to die, but as believers we won't, because of God's promise. We can only have eternal life .... eternally to the right; we are created beings. His life will always be fundamentally different from ours, yet the claim/conclusion here is that we actually have His (fundamentally different from ours) life.
Trapped