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1 | does eternal have a beginning? | Jer 1:5 | ethan | 23496 | ||
bless you ray! P.S.look deep into that word imagination. | ||||||
2 | does eternal have a beginning? | Jer 1:5 | Ray | 23543 | ||
Hi Ethan, I think that God had His "bride" in mind before the foundation of the world. He counted the cost and went forward with the plan. So I like your word pictures with Nathan and especially with Kalos and the "dream house". We are the "spiritual" bride of Christ and as Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before (I) formed you in the womb I knew you...I consecrated you,...I have appointed you..." I compare that with Genesis 1:26, "Then (God) said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness..." So you have to see that God was in the Beginning before us. But I think that the Son had us in mind there in the beginning of Genesis. I think, also, that we have to know that for us the natural had to come first. We came into existence as natural men with a perishable body and our expectant hope is that we will be changed into an eternal Body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:48,49, "As is the earthy; so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. And just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." I also compare or contrast Genesis 1:26 with 1 Corinthians 15:34 as we have the knowledge of God as Spirit. 1Corinthians 15:38, "But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own." Again, we are the spiritual body of Christ. Can I also make a capitalization comment. 1 Corinthians 15 talks about the first man Adam and the second Man, the Lord from heaven. 1 Cor 15:47, "The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second Man is from heaven." See NKJ I think that when we see the contrast between ourselves and the Us of Genesis, and between the man, [us] and the heavenly Man then we can keep our eternity in focus. Later, Ray |
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3 | does eternal have a beginning? | Jer 1:5 | ethan | 23646 | ||
yes Ray the point you make is good but i feel that your perception of time is still getting in the way. consider it as a type of a filing system and you can pick and pull these files as you choose for you wrote them. so it is all written down and you are just waiting for some one to raise up in faith to speak your word "Gods" to overcome the enemy. you have very carefully drawn up every senario and detail and know exactly who will do what and when even down to ,how many times a person brushes their teeth. i will call it a game, but in this Game it is death or life. and they that love it will eat the fruits. It is real.God is waiting for people to ask Him in to help in the situations ,Just to prove How faithful and Strong He is. That example may not be on the right track of explaining how we existed and got our names in the book of life before the worlds were formed .if we can imagine when did Jesus exist, then we existed in Him at the same time. So Even though Jesus died 2 thousand years ago it is our job to enforce the victory that Jesus has done for us by stepping out in faith and believing. so if we exist now in Christ, then because eternity goes in all directions. We are in Christ in etrnity. that is why God is I AM.was and is and is to come. bless you. |
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