Humanity's Identity Restored
Today's blog will deal with a word that is not within the context of Scripture, it being given to me in the wee hours of this morning while my mind was at ease and in perfect peace. This word is "identity," the Merriam - Websters has this as a definition, taken from #3, a and b: a: sameness of essential or generic character in different instances; and, b: sameness in all that constitutes the objective reality of a thing: ONENESS.!
The word history and etymology reflects this: middle French identite, from Late Latin identitat,- identitas, probably from Latin identidem repeatedly, contraction of idem et idem, literally, meaning, same and same. This dictionary also listed many examples, such as: //The identity of the criminal is not known. //They produced their passports as proof of their identities. //As children grow, they establish their own identities. //People who seem to lack individual identity.
Now I would like to say that when two (male and female, the pattern given) take on marriage, the female often takes on the identity of the husband by taking on his surname, example: Maynard or Cook. This in effect is a covenant between the two, where GOD is the unseen partner in both of them. This is also part of a hidden meaning in Elohiym as we have already discovered. (Then there's the science of conception where the females body does not share the blood of mom's body with the fetus within her womb, only the males blood is known to exist here, by design. Which is a key to what flows.) This was covered in our study of Genesis 1:26-28, where I failed to include Seth, the third son of Adam in Genesis 5:3. Where we find, this son of Adam was in his image, while Cain and Abel were not listed [?] why not? Then we find a host of warnings against the use of "images," most dealing with false deities. This brought to our attention by Paul in Romans 1:23 where he shares: "changed the glory of the uncorruptible GOD into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things." Paul then picks things up in Romans 8:29, which for the blind has caused many a problem because they know not their origin....ie. their"identity." I this know through experience with others of the clergy, better trained and qualified. Even after reading many times the book of John why? Because with its ready they have also mixed religious doctrines of the OT, which we are warned not to do because of the veil once rent, no, make that twice rent.Because the Jews repaired the first and it was again rent from top to bottom by GOD. Signifying the death of the Old Law of Moses... and the covenant contained within it. (Romans 1:28, 8:7-8, Col. 1:21; Is. 44:18-20, 46:5-8; Acts 26:17-18, Acts 26:17-18, 2Cor. 4:4, Jude 1:11, now here's the hard one in the KJV: 2Cor. 3:5-15, 16 "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; For our sufficiency is of GOD; Who also has made us able ministers of the New Testament; Not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit give life. For if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; Which glory was to be done away: how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excels. For if that which was done away was glorious, much more that which remains is more glorious. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: and not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which was abolished: for their minds were blinded: for until this day there remains the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; Which vail was done away in Christ. For even to this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Nevertheless when we shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.")
I shall for the sake of argument show this in the KJV beginning at Romans 8 with verses 28 through 30: "For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinated (designed) to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate (pre-designed), them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorifies." (Now let it be known that the word predestinated is G4309 and because it shows up twice within the same thought it is important for our learning. [G4309, proorizō, is from G4253,[pro, a primary preposition; “fore”, that is, in front of, prior (figuratively superior) to.] and G3724, [horizō, is from G3725, horion; of a derivative of an apparently primary word ὅρος horos (a bound or limit); to mark out or boundary (“horizon”), that is, (figuratively) to appoint, decree, specify: - declare, determine, limit, ordain to.]; to limit in advance, that is, (figuratively) predetermine: - determine before, ordain, predestinate.)
Okay, now I will turn to the Mirror Study Bible to catch it's rendition of the same passages of Romans 8:28-30: "Meanwhile we know that the love of GOD causes everything to mutually contribute to our advantage. His Master Plan is announced in our original identity. (Calling according to His purpose, G2822, kale, means to surname, to identify by name.) He pre-designed and engineered us from the start to be jointly fashioned in the same mold and image of His Son according to the exact blueprint of His thought (as seen in Genesis 1:26-28). We see the original and intended pattern of our lives preserved in His Son. He is the firstborn from the same womb that reveals our genesis. He confirms that we are the invention of GOD. ( We were born anew when He was raised from the dead! [1Peter 1:3] His resurrection co-reveals our common genesis as well as our redeemed innocence. [Rom. 4:25 also Acts 17:31] No wonder then that He is not ashamed to call us His brethren and friends! We share the same origin [Heb. 2:11], and, "In Him we live and move and have our being, we are indeed His offspring!" [Acts 17:28].) Jesus revealed that we pre - existed in GOD; He defined us. He justifies us and also glorifies us. He redeemed our innocence and restored the glory that Adam lost. ( As in Romans 3:23-24, G629, prooritso, pre - defined, like when an architect draws up a detailed plan; kaleo, to surname, identify by name.)
What is to come, I don't know at this point therefore I leave that up to GOD most faithful. You do know that when I say GOD I mean Elohiym the true "trinity," even though denied to be such by our Jewish friends.
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