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Originally Posted by Paul Miletus
As for me, I believe the Lord Jesus does not leave any scar in us because we are now a new creation, the old has gone.
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Maybe, maybe not. When the Lord appeared to the disciples He still had scars. He said, "See the wounds in my hands and feet. It is I."
Jesus was "wounded in the house of His friends" (Zechariah 13:6). They had asked Him, in the eternal resurrection, "What are these wounds in Your hands?"
He is, even in eternity, the "Lamb that was slain"
Look at a piece of jasper sometime. It is a 'scarred' stone, full of the marks of its creation. It is not a featureless crystal, a green emerald. No, it is full of 'personality'. The New Jerusalem shines like a jasper stone, no? The high wall is jasper.
This is not my doctrine, just some thoughts that I occasionally consider. Perhaps we do bear the marks of our perfecting. Who we are and what we pass through are aspects of the same story.