A fairly lofty position of one who doesn't need to learn or gain knowledge any longer:
Knowledge without relationship is no knowledge at all, nor is it salvation as a Gnostic or a Lapsarian might believe it is.
I don't know if you understand the sad irony here...
Correct. I don't. I have been very clear with you using the simplest of words.
Absolutely but:
He is 100%. John 1:1 was with AND was God.
And NOW, as the human He NEVER was preincarnate, He is and will remain so in His Glorified state of being, to be one day sole possessor of the Godhead. He won the victory over sin and death to be God in Divine flesh, which was the Ultimate intention of God for having ever created man, i.e., men as hiers of Himself and joint hiers with Christ Jesus. Only a man could ever be our example to follow in that, not God. If God, then our quest would be beyond us. It would be a barrier to our obedience and belief in Him that we make our excuses for not overcoming the law of our sinful flesh (Rom 7) thus preventing the new born of Him from entering Rom 8.
Ouch so "As we are, God once was" -Lorenzo Snow isn't heresy or blasphemy? Anything goes because it is 'difficult?'
God never was in human flesh unless you want to take into consideration His foreknowledge of His then made vulnerable but now perfected Son
"in Whom I am well pleased", Who worked it all out through His finger tips in fear and trembling.. . .I add, which is the same LIFE given the new born of Him to follow suit and in the same way Jesus performed it . . Obedience, faith and allegiance.
I am not familiar with any Lorenzo Snow. Did he write any books?
:idunno: You lost me here.
I understand.
Matthew 6:40 and Galatians 6:6 "the end is already predetermined."
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Galatians 6:6 (KJV)
Absolutely! . . . And for the learner to understand that it is not by decree that the salvation or knowledge of God comes to men. The one being imputed, the other imparted. The former must be in proper order for the latter to have its intended effect.
"For he that soweth to his flesh [his head and not to his heart]
shall of the flesh reap corruption. . . . ." Galatians 6:8 (KJV), which is what I see here in everyone who is desiring to advance his religious ideas; 'knowledge' without insight, insight that would advance HIM further along his own "knowing" of what is eternal life purposed for man by God, through and by Christ Jesus.(John 17:3)
Sorry, my Bible can't open up Matt 6:40.