actually we all, Jew and Gentile come out of the father and we will all return to the father and be ONE that is my understanding and I believe I have Gods spirit residing in me...
Hi Ian, actually I think Christ was unique in how He was brought forth from the Father "the only begotten Son" (John 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18; Heb 11:17; 1 John 4:9), as His spiritual Son first, then entering flesh to fully share our own existence before He suffer and died.
Some people believe that mankind were spirit beings that came into the flesh, but we all are first of the flesh and only when we are begotten with the Spirit do we have life within us.
1Co 15:46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.
v. 47 The first man came from the dust of the earth; the second man came from heaven.
But I do think I see what you mean we came out of the Father, in that He certainly gave us the physical breath of life.
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Ecc 12:7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.
However we have yet to learn how we are part of being gods either now or definitely in the future
Only when the Holy Spirit is indwelling do we have the earnest of spiritual life and any part of God, sons of God.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
2Co 1:21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,
v. 22 who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
2Co 5:4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
v. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
1Jn 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as he is.
And to the point of the "future," taking the analogy of Christ being the right hand of God, then could the elect be further extensions like the fingers of the hand? It seems to fit thinking of it as all being through Christ, but still from the ultimate source of power, the Father.
mercy. peace and love
Kat