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The "Good News" is that this wonderful Person Jesus is alive.
The second part of the Good News is that God is able to "copy and paste" this living wonderful person into your very being.
I will discuss some verses which essentially reveal this, though the wording I use is not biblical but modernistic.
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Since Jesus was one man, and He said He would come to live in many men and women, it is appropriate to think of Him as "copies".
Or else how can one Person be duplicated to enter into many people. He can because He is God-man. He is man yet man plus.
He can die a redemptive death for millions personally.
And He can be copied and pasted into millions who receive Him personally.
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Jesus promises to "copy and paste" Himself into those who take Him in. Then as He lived they too will learn to live.
"As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me." (John 6:57)
Jesus is so emphatic about Him getting into the INSIDES of people's being that He speaks of Himself as FOOD to eat. You have to take Him in.
And the millions who take Him in, who "eat" Him, He will copy and paste His living self into them. That is that as He lived in oneness with His Father they may likewise learn to live in oneness with Jesus.
" ... as I live by the Father, so he who eats Me he also shall live because of Me."
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Jesus says He will "copy and paste" so to speak - Himself into men and from within them REVEAL Himself to them. That is not His sentimental self but His resurrected and LIVING self. This is the Gospel.
"He who has My commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him." (John 14:21)
He will copy and paste Himself into whoever loves Him and keeps His commandments - the first of which is to believe into Him - to receive Him.
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Jesus says He will come as "Another Comforter" the Spirit of reality. And He will come to us in that form to copy and paste His living presence into our innermost being.
" ... the Spirit of reality, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him,
because He abides with you and shall be in you.
I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you." (See John 14:17-18)
The world cannot behold Jesus. Twenty centuries ago the twelve disciples had Jesus physically with them. They beheld Him. He was WITH them. But something was going to happen that He would be in them.
He would transfigure into the life giving Spirit and copy and paste Himself into them. He would not leave them as orphans. He would COME TO THEM in this invisible form - the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of reality.
" ... but you know Him, because He abides with you and shall be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you."
Though the centuries Jesus has been copying and pasting Himself into His believers.
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Why isn't Him making an abode with so many keepers of His commandments copying and pasting Himself into them?
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Here in John 20 after the resurrection of Christ, He copies and pastes Himself into the ten disciples first. (Thomas was missing and Judas of course was no more).
Each one of them receives a living copy of Himself dispensed into their being. The critical part I have bolded.
John 20:19 - 23
"When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and while the doors were shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said, Peace be to you. (v.19)
And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples therefore rejoiced at seeing the Lord. (v.20)
Then Jesus said to them again, Peace be to you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you; (v21)
And when He had said this, He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. (v.22)
Whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you retain, they are retained." (v.23)
By the symbolic gesture of Jesus breathing into them, the One standing there actually copied and pasted His living presence as God-man into each of the disciples.
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Yes, it is useful.
Paul was a pioneer to realize this desire for Christ Himself to be copied and revealed in him.
"But when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mpther's womb and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me that might announce Him among the Gentiles ... " (Gal. 1:16)
Christ, the resurrected Man was copied and pasted into Paul that He might be "revealed" in Paul. Paul announced this One who had been copied and pasted into him.
Paul informs also that the duplication of Christ in men was the eternal purpose of God for which everything is working together to accomplish.
"And we know that all things work together or good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
Because those whom foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers." (Rom. 8:28,29)
The copy and pasting takes a second. The conformation and transfomation that the revelation of the copied and pasted Christ, requires time.
But it is accomplished in successive degrees - from one degree to another by the Lord Spirit.
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.
But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit." (2 Cor. 3:17,18)
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@sonship saidI don't like this metaphor.
The "Good News" is that this wonderful Person Jesus is alive.
The second part of the Good News is that God is able to "copy and paste" this living wonderful person into your very being.
I will discuss some verses which essentially reveal this, though the wording I use is not biblical but modernistic.
Maybe because I would have preferred an Akhnatenist-Platonic scripture, which would have been more groovy and sublime than the mental proclamations of a self-involved bunch of scruffy tribal sensualists.
Er ... and also because that copy-paste metaphor reminds me of "The Stepford Wives."
Plus the recurring threat and reward aspect of the system around it.
God (of a particular imagined configuration, skating rather close to an idol) gives us free will, and our choices are to go our own way and be damned, or beg to be mind-wiped and become Clone Christs? No thank you.
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I broke up my response in different posts below caesar-salad.
God (of a particular imagined configuration, skating rather close to an idol)
Do you regard Jesus Christ we are told of in the New Testament as an idol?
I think Christ is too real of a personality to be any idolatrous product of imagination. No one has ever offered me a believable reason why such a character would be concocted. And that assuming that anyone would have the goodness to be able to do so.
gives us free will,
And you have the freedom to come to Christ for forgiveness and His indwelling your spiritual being. And you have the freedom to say no to that.
The metaphor I like. But a straightforward teaching is always there -
"That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith ..." (Ephesians 3:17)
This is not sentimental. It is actual. Christ rose and is alive and available.
You can be free to decide to believe in which case He will show Himself faithful.
And you have the freedom to decide your life without Christ and God in it are somehow more enjoyable.
He does not force Himself into your heart against your will.
So your freedom is intact. But you need forgiveness from where your freedom to live godlessly has lead you.
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and our choices are to go our own way and be damned,
I like the metaphor because it is important to know whether one is worth a damn to begin with. An empty sin filled life can be very dark, vain, futile and never at rest or knowing what was its purpose.
To me the Gospel answers not only the problem of actual guilt and stains upon one's moral character. But it answers the quest for knowing why we are here to begin with.
I once sat on the roof of a country house at night in the full moon. The fall leaves were shining in the moonlight all over the large meadow. I ached inside to the point almost of weeping. I could not understand why all this beauty could not make me happy.
The ear is not satisfied with hearing.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing.
Even in partying deep within the heart there is a hollow aching for something deeper.
Well, that is my experience if not yours. And I was eventually overjoyed to know that Christ could make His home in my heart through faith.
In fact I found all without Him became idols of vanity.
That is because only God within in a living fellowship can put the heart at true rest.