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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
Yes, in one sense a person has their own life, but their father is the source, the initiator of their biological life. The father's and mother's genes come together and the offspring gets a mix.
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I do get how it works, but I just don't think "I have my father's life" is an accurate or good description of it.
"My father (and mother) gave me life"? Sure.
"I have a human life just like my father has a human life"? Sure.
But "I have the life of my father?" That's......just not true.
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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
In my case, I completely got my body type from my dad, basically down to a fraction of an inch. And, even though he didn't really raise me, my wife says I have many mannerisms that look just like him . . . even a unique walk we share (which she thinks is a hoot). So I think that's a pretty good example of having my dad's life and nature. I'm predisposed, in many ways, to resemble him because of this life he passed to me.
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I get this concept too. So we use "nature" to really mean mannerisms/disposition/appearance? I know there are sons who have a calm demeanor or a gentle disposition just like their dad, for example, but there are plenty of other sons who have a calm/gentle dad and yet they themselves are completely different in mannerism and disposition. I feel like this "nature of the father" argument is only anecdotal.
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P.S. My issue with this might just be a personal issue for me with how the wording sounds. I think what gets me is "having the life/nature of my father" sounds too much like I possess something which a person cannot give to me. This is why statements like "become more like God" do better for me rather than "become God in..."
Like we say "that son is just like his dad!" We don't say "that son
is his father in demeanor." Or "I have become my father in disposition".
(We do say "I see his father in him".....but we don't actually mean his father is in him. That's just an expression that doesn't mean what it objectively says.)
I am just like him in disposition? Fine. I have the same disposition as he does? Fine. But this "I have become my father in ......" communicates something different, imo.