Identify in Christ

Identity in Christ "Let us create mankind in Our Own Image" are the words spoken by Elohim. God was the first to identify everything that would revolve around man and planned things to be in place before He created Him. Since the fall, who mankind is has shifted from the absolute to relative, meaning man defines himself to his fellow man and inevitably to God as well. When man identifies himself to God He speaks gibberish. His words lose meaning and purpose when they approach the throne of God. The closer they get, the more meaning they lose. Same goes for God as well, in order for man to know his identity in Christ, he would have to dig into the eternal where language doesn't exist. Now there's two problems, the that man wants to identify himself in a realm which is not his own. In order for him to know his identity he has to listen to however God describes it and live as it. God doesn't negotiate Who He is and who mankind is. Because there's no way to know what God knows, man kid had to trust the definition of God for Who He is as well as who man is. The identiy of man can only come through faith irrespective of whether the definition comes from God or himself. Man has to have faith to know that he exists, and also know that he can trust his own mind to define itself to him. At the same time, he had to destroy whatever thoughts he had about himself which contrast what God says. And since God's word is eternally incomprehensible, man would have to identify himself according to his own level of understanding for eternity, this means the identiy of man in Christ is an eternal process which begun before the foundations of the world, when man was in God as One Spirit. God gave out a part of Himsef in him to identiy himself in man and use that identity to identify Himself. We all the personality the spirit. The spirit is the identiy of God in us, which is apart from Him but once was in Him. This part hence is capable of copying God's attributes to a certain extent as God fave before He created man. The onus in identifying who man is lies in God but the one of accepting God's definition lies in man. The aim of Christianity isn't to lose our identities but to regain our identities in eternity before we entered into time. It involves self loss solely because man has worked his whole life to identiy himself outside of God, the more he maintains his self identity, the more he will need to sacrifice it. This is eternal repentance, to admit that his life was all a lie since before he was born. That all that he had believed about himself were lies, if he doesn't accept this eternal truth then he will compromise God's definition of him to only certain aspects which suit him. The identity man has in Christ rests on God revealing and man accepting, the relationship between revelations and acceptance leads to walking with God. The question now becomes who are we in Christ? The answer is, we are whoever God says we are whether we like the definition is irrelevant. And because of what our nature stands for, God defines us in ways we least want to be defined. God identifies us and has expectations from us we're unwilling to fulfull. What aggregates the situation is, identity and purpose go hand in hand, which means none of us are living completely the way God wants. And the only thing that makes it worse is that we don't have any remorse for this, and we know it every well. Well enough to deny and sinful enough to deny knowing what we know to justifiy ourselves. We are deceiving ourselves and each other, with group think. Looking at our neighbours and thinking to ourselves that we''re, we''re going to heaven. There's a narrow way found by few, but only those who walk in it shall receive salvation, its not enough knowing the gate. It's not enough knowing that God is our identity and act like we''re our own

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