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NASB | Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument], And before you were born I consecrated you [to Myself as My own]; I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations." [Ex 33:12; Is 49:1, 5; Rom 8:29] |
Subject: does eternal have a beginning? |
Bible Note: 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 |