Bone of My Bones & Flesh of My Flesh

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Thanks, Raptor, for your "digging." I like this.

It's rare when I find something here suitable to share with my wife.

Well I think that says something about this forum - that you find little to share with your wife! (is it normally of little value, or nothing that would be edifying, or . . . ?)

So, since this is the LC Discussion board, let me throw this out. WL is accused of Modalism (or at least of teaching the traditional Trinity one moment & Modalism the next). My understanding of Modalism is that it says the one God processed/changed Himself into the Son and then into Spirit. Considering that the mystery of God is Christ, and the mystery of Christ is the church, the natural progression of Modalism would seem to be that God then processed/changed Himself into the church.

So this discussion sort of dovetails with the discussion we've been having about the Triune God and Modalism, right? Does Modalistic thinking then lend itself to thinking we become God?

Personally speaking, from what I've seen, many Christians do not have a very full picture of what the ekklesia is really being called into - the bride and body of Christ, and a dwelling place of God in Spirit. The bible calls us sons and heirs of God and the picture of the church portrayed in Ephesians is exceedingly breathtaking, but I haven't found where it says implicitly that we become God.

To be sure, the revelation of who we have been made in Christ is beyond amazing, and this is a mystery I doubt we will have a full revelation of until we loose this current tent or He fully reveals it to us now!