...unless it is in character and nature.
Stature is a whole other thing.
God created everything to have ranks...to have priorities of importance. Structures require order. When a we build a structure do we start with the roof? There is an order to consider in everything we undertake. We get is real trouble when we get our priorities mixed up.
We are to seek FIRST the Kingdom of God. That is a priority that puts everything else into the right perspective.
What about the GodHead? Is there a structure there? YES! God the Father is the MOST HIGH. Jesus Christ is a lesser part of a greater whole.
Jesus Christ was always IN God. Jesus Christ was always with God. One day, the part of God that was to become Jesus was taken out of the Father...perhaps like the way that Eve came out of Adam (as an example ...but with God there is eternal awareness). Jesus thus became a smaller piece of the Father in order to be better able to mix in with His Creation. As such He was begotten by the Father.
When Jesus was sent into our world to become one with us in order to help us become one with the Father, He was also created..in a superimposition of humanity on divinity. (or the other way around). As such He is the first born of the NEW CREATION.
God the Father is Spirit...He is very great...too great for us to comprehend. We needed a smaller piece of God that we wouldn't choke on. I use this terminology since Jesus used it. We are to eat His flesh. We are to drink His blood (life). We are to eat His words and live by them. We are to live in His life (blood) to experience real fellowship with God.
Stature is a whole other thing.
God created everything to have ranks...to have priorities of importance. Structures require order. When a we build a structure do we start with the roof? There is an order to consider in everything we undertake. We get is real trouble when we get our priorities mixed up.
We are to seek FIRST the Kingdom of God. That is a priority that puts everything else into the right perspective.
What about the GodHead? Is there a structure there? YES! God the Father is the MOST HIGH. Jesus Christ is a lesser part of a greater whole.
Jesus Christ was always IN God. Jesus Christ was always with God. One day, the part of God that was to become Jesus was taken out of the Father...perhaps like the way that Eve came out of Adam (as an example ...but with God there is eternal awareness). Jesus thus became a smaller piece of the Father in order to be better able to mix in with His Creation. As such He was begotten by the Father.
When Jesus was sent into our world to become one with us in order to help us become one with the Father, He was also created..in a superimposition of humanity on divinity. (or the other way around). As such He is the first born of the NEW CREATION.
God the Father is Spirit...He is very great...too great for us to comprehend. We needed a smaller piece of God that we wouldn't choke on. I use this terminology since Jesus used it. We are to eat His flesh. We are to drink His blood (life). We are to eat His words and live by them. We are to live in His life (blood) to experience real fellowship with God.
