We are called God’s own people….
(1Pe 2:9) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (ESV)
(1Pe 2:9) But you are his chosen people, the King's priests. You are a holy nation, people who belong to God. He chose you to tell about the wonderful things he has done. He brought you out of the darkness of sin into his wonderful light.(ERV)
Peter says that believers use the divine nature of God - his power and knowledge.
(2Pe 1:3) His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
(2Pe 1:4) by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. (ALL ESV)
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So, does that make us divine from rebirth?
On earth, did not Jesus ‘use’ the same divinity of his Father from birth?
If so, then are we not ‘as’ divine as Jesus, when he was born?
If not, they do we have and use a different spirit than Christ?
Or is it the same one that Jesus used yesterday and today – that of the Father’s spirit?
What say you?
Bless you,
APAK
(1Pe 2:9) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (ESV)
(1Pe 2:9) But you are his chosen people, the King's priests. You are a holy nation, people who belong to God. He chose you to tell about the wonderful things he has done. He brought you out of the darkness of sin into his wonderful light.(ERV)
Peter says that believers use the divine nature of God - his power and knowledge.
(2Pe 1:3) His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
(2Pe 1:4) by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. (ALL ESV)
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So, does that make us divine from rebirth?
On earth, did not Jesus ‘use’ the same divinity of his Father from birth?
If so, then are we not ‘as’ divine as Jesus, when he was born?
If not, they do we have and use a different spirit than Christ?
Or is it the same one that Jesus used yesterday and today – that of the Father’s spirit?
What say you?
Bless you,
APAK