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Originally Posted by zeek

If Christ is both the life and God, what's the problem?

I would say the problem is that the Bible doesn't anthropomorphize life or treat it as something that can be known or interacted with or sensed. It talks about knowing God, but it doesn't talk about "knowing life" (I think). Instead, it talks about "having life".

Related to Christ and life, I think of these verses:

John 1:4
In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

John 5:26
For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.

1 John 5:11-12
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

So God "has life in himself". God granted to the Son "also to have life in himself".

And we have this life, apparently not in ourselves, but because we have the Son, who himself has this life in himself.

It's a non-biblical thought, as far as I can tell, to "know life". We don't "know life"; we know the One who HAS the life.

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P.S. So what does that mean when Jesus says "I am the life"? Why didn't He say "I HAVE the life"? Ya got me. I'm just throwing thoughts out there.

Maybe He meant it like a parent who tells their teenager "I am your ride home." Obviously the teen isn't going to jump on his dad's back and get a piggyback ride, but the parent is the way the kid will get the ride home, and in that way "is" the ride.

Like, you want life? I'm how you get that.