Originally posted by checkbaiter
Thank God for the local churches where we do learn about these things.
You may be a godman, if that is what you have been taught. I am a man with Christ in him.
When Jesus was made like unto his brethren, which of them were godmen?
The truth that I know is that he was 100% man, like Adam. Now he is something else. Now he is the glorified Son of God with power and authority given to him by God.
You may be a godman, if that is what you have been taught. I am a man with Christ in him.
A perhaps more biblical term would be
"a man of God" or one experiencing
"godliness".
At any rate you do not have to come to a local church to read in the New Testament that we believers in Jesus are partakers of the divine nature
(2 Peter. 1:4) . Now that is not just spectators, or observers or admirers but
"partakers".
Doesn't that make everyone partaking in the divine nature a "Godman" ?
When Jesus was made like unto his brethren, which of them were godmen?
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When we are made LIKE HIM
(1 John 3:3) we are conformed to the image of the FIrstborn Son of God. Am I right ?
"Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.
And those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified." (Rom. 8:29,30)
So you are quite right that He became like us. But why not go after the full story. The Christians will be like Him.
So He is Godman by incarnation and resurrection.
The believers are Godmen by full salvation !
The truth that I know is that he was 100% man, like Adam. Now he is something else. Now he is the glorified Son of God with power and authority given to him by God.
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How can He actually live in man unless He is God?
If He is not also God then of what need is there for Him to live in man if God, someone else, lives in the believers?
Has it escaped your notice that
"the Spirit of God" and
"Christ" are used as interchangeable titles in
Romans 8:9-11 ?
This last Adam -
"became a life giving Spirit" (1 Cor. 15:45) that we could receive Him into our innermost spiritual being. Only God can go there.