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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Ok, let me try this one again. This is an open book test my brother! Please feel free to quote Witness Lee in your answer.
Please tell us about the "life and nature" (of God) that we "become" that is apart from the "life and nature" (of God) that we do "not become". According to Witness Lee (and now you) God has two sets of lifes and natures - one that we become and one that we do not become. Again, feel free to use Lee as much as you want (and you're going to have to use Lee because nobody else teaches anything close)
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Now I can answer the question.
In Genesis we see that God gave life and His nature to His creation - He created Adam in His own image. This is also spoken of in Romans 1:20:
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--
his eternal power and divine nature--have been
clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
So there is a thing called the life and nature of God in His creation, eve the life God gives us as human beings (and first Adam) and the life God gives us as believers.
We partake of the life and nature of God that is not in the Godhead/Trinity, the one He gives to His creation. In other words, we share His life and nature but not His personality -we retain our own personality.
Then there is the life and nature of God in the Trinity, and we could call this God's personality or person.
Lee wrote
"“Nevertheless, we must know that we do not share God's Person and cannot be worshipped"
In a follow up post I will go into a more formal definition of life and nature.