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Originally Posted by Trapped
Eve never became Adam, the Bride never becomes the Spirit, the Body never becomes the Head, the branches never become the vine, and the many grains never become the first grain.
Adam and Eve may have been one flesh, but Eve never "became" Adam in life/nature.
Trapped
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Trapped,
Agreed.... The Body never becomes the Head, the branches never become the Vine, and the many grains never become the First Grain, and Eve never becomes Adam, etc.
Nevertheless, the life and nature of the Head and Body are the same, the Vine and the branches share the same life and nature, the many grains we're produced because they share the life and nature of the original Grain,
...and of course Eve has the life and nature of Adam since she was built out of Adam! Though Eve did not become Adam, she became human. We can say, Eve became Adam in his life and nature (human) but not in what makes Adam uniquely Adam.
Likewise, the sons of God, the many brothers of the Firstborn, also share the life and nature of God..... when humans receive this divine life and divine nature through regeneration then these humans by natural birth also become divine by the new birth (regeneration). This birth brings in the oneness between the Triune God and the believers prayed for by the Lord Jesus in John 17.
Drake