Remember! When I refer to person in the Godhead in any blog, I am referring either to singular person (one-of-three) or to the collective person (three-in-one) of the Triune.
And now, The Solution: Part Two—New Choice.
We have established over the past few blogs, gentle reader, that through the new opportunity of Jesus and the new covenant (Hebrews 8:7-13), humankind and all Creation could be restored one individual at a time as each person became willing to choose Jesus as their solution. Note well, restoration would come only by individuals exercising the privilege of a brand New Choice in Christ—choosing eternal life and new life!
Such benefits as eternal life and new life would mean choosing to live life in the community, the family of the Godhead, dependent on the Godhead’s superior powers, ways and rule to manage the glorious potential of chaos—something only the Godhead could (ever) do, anyway.
Along with this 2-part solution would come even more benefits.
The added benefit to the one that so chose Jesus would also be to become a “new man (man—a term used inclusively in the scriptures of male and female together)”, to become “new creatures” (2 Corinthians 5:17) in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
The “old (corrupt) man” would be identified spiritually with Christ and His death on the cross, die and remain in the grave (Ephesians 2:1-13).
The “new man” (justified) would arise from the grave (spiritually) with Christ, dead to sin and alive to God (Romans 6:11).
Romans 6:11 “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
The new man would be a new fusion of God and man, in-filled with a new spirit (the Holy Spirit, Acts 2:38-39) and sealed in the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13). He would arise with a new mind (a mind with access to the mind of Christ by the power of Holy Spirit), and in time (as a work in progress—sanctification) become a restored soul, with reshaped thinking. He would also arise empowered to choose and to change, with glorification (completion in the image of Christ and His character, while still retaining his own unique personality) and eternal life awarded as his/her new destiny (Ephesians 4:17-24).
Wow! What a plan! What a promise in Jesus!
Wow! How these understandings stretch the brain!
(You know what these findings mean, don’t you, dear reader? They mean (at least to me, airhead or not) that believers are a new TYPE of person, like Jesus was a new TYPE of person. We are no longer just humans, fellow believers. We are human and divine in one body. God said it. I believe it. My choice.)
To continue, the Godhead would make these “new creatures” (such as you and me) able to obey, able to comply with divine statutes and ordinances and much, much more. And as this new creature embraced and practiced his new identity in Christ Jesus, he would if not all at once and perfectly, then over time and better and better, become more and more like Jesus (by choice)—a noble creature fit for eternity (Philippians 3:12), fit for interaction with the Godhead and shared rule over sublime, Godhead-managed chaos—all creation.
To be continued . . .
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