I do not want to cut things short about Christ's being our resource for Life Light and Love that is GOD centered in man. Because there are such things as Christ's humanity, His Lordship, His dominion, His manifestation in the incarnation and so much more. To do this I will expand my targeted passage to include 50-57 along with 42-49, which looks like this:
1Corinthians 15:42-49, 50-57 "So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust (earthy); the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven (spiritual). *Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image (shadow in the old testament (Hebrew Strong's H6754) witness but here in the new it means likeness of the parent, a bit weaker than, Strong's Greek G1504) of the man of heaven.
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law. But thanks be to GOD, Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
To being this study of Christ's being the eternal Life, Light and Love of GOD in Grace and Truth of spiritual likeness of our original parent I will look at our likeness of Christ.
The Likeness of Christ, the religious aim of that christian life style,
Romans 8:26-27, 28-30, 31-39 with 1Corinthians 15:49* "Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit (GOD) Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And HE Who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will (law, and plan and purpose) of GOD.
For we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom HE foreknew HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.* And those whom HE predestined HE also called, and those whom HE called HE also justified, and those whom HE justified HE also glorified.
What then shall we say to these things? If GOD is for us, who can be against us? He Who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will HE not also with Him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against GOD's elect? It is GOD Who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of GOD, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of GOD in Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? For as it is written (in Psalm 44:22), "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him Who loved (loves) us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of GOD in Christ Jesus our LORD."
2Corinthians 3:12-18 "Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. For their (minds) hearts were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the LORD, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.* For this comes from the LORD Who is the Spirit."
Philippians 3:17-21 "Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power that enables Him even to subject all things to Himself.*"
2Peter 1:1-11 "Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of GOD and of Jesus our Lord. By His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him Who called us to (share in) His own glory and excellence, by which He has granted to us His precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ."
1John 3:1-3 "See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of GOD; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it does not know Him. Beloved, we are GOD's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when HE appears we will be like Him, because we will see Him as HE is. And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as HE is pure."
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