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To: Scotswife

See my post 16.

His status as God the Son was never changed. But His actions here, the miracles, healing, His words, were a result of a man who spent time with His father and operated in perfect obedience.

I believe that we can also operate at that level. It’s an ideal of perfection, but we are created in His image, seated in heavenly places with Him, made to drink the same Spirit, baptised into Christ Himself. It’s the Father’s pleasure to give us the Kingdom, and may His will be done on earth (through us, since Jesus isn’t here anymore) as it is in heaven.

We are a new creation- a divine order of being, filled with the Holy Spirit and imitating Christ.


22 posted on 07/28/2007 7:15:14 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (The FairTax and the North American Union are mutually exclusive.)
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To: ovrtaxt

“But His actions here, the miracles, healing, His words, were a result of a man who spent time with His father and operated in perfect obedience.”

Because he acted in obedience to the Father does not mean his actions on earth were not those of a God as well as those of a man.

Again...I think it is a disjoined view of Jesus to separate his Divine from his human nature.
He was - at all times - both. It is not mutually exclusive.

And while we were created in God’s “image”, we were not created to be “God.”

Christians were not able to perform miracles because they became god themselves, they were given those gifts through God - who consists of 3 persons.

So I think this debate is really about the Trinity and the role each of the 3 persons has in the Godhead.

I don’t see in any of the passages cited that Jesus somehow became unaware of his divinity, or somehow lost his divine attributes.


27 posted on 07/28/2007 7:22:53 AM PDT by Scotswife
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