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Originally Posted by Trapped
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
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Hi Trapped,
I'm always happy to serve as a tour guide on the road of God's economy to observe and share all the amazing steps our wonderful God has taken to from eternity past to eternity future to make us God in life and nature as regenerated sons of God, the many brothers of Christ. Nothing brings me greater pleasure!
However, "A" begins with the Triune God...the Father, Son, and Spirit... ever-existing in eternity past to eternity future, co-equal in the Godhead, etc.
Since you do not believe that then we won't get past "A". It all starts there. Though the brothers in the Trinity thread have been diligent to lay out the truth, you remain unconvinced, at least according to your recent posts.
"A" is probably a non-starter for you.
Drake