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John 14:20 states
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Does the realization of John 14:20 make you a little I of the great I AM?
No. It's just saying god is in him and he is within god. Like christians have the holy spirit in them. His connection is through sinlessness while christians is through grace.
John 14:20 states
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Does the realization of John 14:20 make you a little I of the great I AM?
if the Holy Spirit is in them, then isn't it intrinsically a microcosm of the Macrocosm? of the Absolute?
some christians use your analogy. most quakers believe that all are christ.
What do Quakers believe?
We believe that every person is loved and guided by God. Broadly speaking, we affirm that "there is that of God in everyone." Everyone is known by God and can know God in a direct relationship. We are called to attend to this relationship and to be guided by it. Quakers use many words to describe the Divine. Some of them include: God, the Light Within, Christ, Spirit, Seed, and Inward Teacher.
John 14:20 states
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Does the realization of John 14:20 make you a little I of the great I AM?
if all are a reflection of the I AM then there is no exaltation of one above the other.Matthew 23
12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
if all are a reflection of the I AM then there is no exaltation of one above the other.
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I never heard it put that way before. I can't explain the experience of the holy spirit. It's like having a new life to live and connection with divinity. I wouldn't call it holy spirit anymore because of the reference to christianity.
Well, the other definition "all are christ" the only way I can see that is all christians are anointed and forgiven by the grace of god. As for being the human christ, no.
There is only one reflection of the I AM.
Hebrews 1
3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. 4 So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.
This is said about no other person in the 66 books of the Bible.
The I AM gives us His Spirit from His love and good grace. We are by no means any sort of a reflection of His goodness, we are unworthy of His grace.
John 21:15 says to feed my lambs; which are symbolically christs(arnion).
again another instance of man as christs.
Job 25:6
6 how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
a human being, who is only a worm!”
similar idea taken from lin-chi
When he lived in the prefecture of Ho for a time, he instructed local monks. The regional governor, Councillor Wang, visited him and enquired about ch'an practices. "Do the monks of this monastery read the sutras?" Wang asked.
"No," Lin-chi answered, "they don't read sutras."
"Do they learn meditation?" Wang persisted.
"No," Lin-chi said, "they don't learn meditation."
"If they don't read sutras or learn meditation, what are they doing?"
"All I do", Lin-chi answered, "is make them become buddhas and patriarchs."
I don't see how that relates.
Christ is within god and god within christ. The holy spirit is in christians. God is in Muslims and Jews. Hindus experience god. None of this is symbolic.
Feed the lambs is feed the disciples. Lambs among wolves-same concept. Those who follow jesus and those who do not. But I don't see how it relates to jesus and god sharing the same nature of sinlessness.
I AM that i am is a reflection of all that is created. God is omnipresent. everything is an offspring of god.
Acts 17:28
‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
Jeremiah 23:23-24
"Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "And not a God far off? "Can a man hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?" declares the LORD "Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?" declares the LORD.
Colossians 1:17
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
again another fail
John 14:20 states
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Does the realization of John 14:20 make you a little I of the great I AM?
Those with inflated ego's shall be shown how unexceptional they really are.Matthew 23
12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
There is only one reflection of the I AM.
Hebrews 1
3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. 4 So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.
This is said about no other person in the 66 books of the Bible.
The I AM gives us His Spirit from His love and good grace. We are by no means any sort of a reflection of His goodness, we are unworthy of His grace.
if all are a reflection of the I AM then there is no exaltation of one above the other.
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Jesus sat down at the right hand of the majesty of heaven? Heaven is essentially God's brain. Jesus is not in heaven, He is in a higher universal level doing His job.
the verses reference god as imminent and omnipresent.Actually, I don't agree with you at all and I have a hard time understanding you, too. I honestly have no idea where you get the ideas for most of your posts. It's like trying to read Mandarin.
God is not just a being, God is everything that exists. Jesus was created in heaven and given knowledge so He could design and lead a universe, this universe.
From a timeline perspective God is the original timeline. Jesus is an offshoot timeline that comes from the original timeline. Everything that exists in this universe is on Jesus timelime, so, everything and everyone is "in" God because God is everything and we are also, in a way, "in" Jesus because we are in His timeline.