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| Personality of God |
Before it is possible to have that deeper, personal
experience with God, we must start with a knowledge of God.
In Christ’s prayer, recorded in John 17,
Christ addresses His Father as a separate person.
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou
hast sent me. Verse 21
He goes on to say in what sense He and the Father are “one.”
This unity does not destroy their individuality.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be
one, even as we are one: Verse 22
They are one in the same sense that we are to be one with other
believers.
Once in conversation, I was asked, “You believe God is in you, don't
you?”
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I had been studying this very subject, I answered “No.” (Christ is to be
in us in a sense, but not contrary to sense. See page 31) My questioner
was a little bit surprised and turning to another man, repeated his
question. This time he was rewarded by a “Yes.” This is the answer he
had been looking for, and he proceeded to share some of his philosophy
with us. He said that he believed that too, and that he also believed
that God was in the ocean, in the trees, and in the flowers. He went on
to say that he was god, I was god, and that everything was god. Even a
cup of water was god, or a “part of god.”
Our understanding of the personality of God is vital to having a
relationship with Him. Can you have a relationship with a tree, or a
glass of water? Are we to look inside ourselves for God? No, no, no! |
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