What really gets to me is what Ray shows us about the parables all meaning ONE.
Yes, the word OF is BIG with HUGE importance!
We aren’t to do as the heretics do. They believe IN God. We eliminate IN ~ We BELIEVE God.
Faith IN Christ is not Faith OF Christ. We are to become the Faith OF Christ that is changed from the deceived practice of our faith. The Faith OF Christ becomes the pivotal change from IN to OF to AS CHRIST.
We also, are to be changed IN and TO His Being. We shall be HIS Image not His Original.
I believe that Christ is the mediator of all that is In, of and to = start, change, stop, = is, was, will be, = Alpha, I AM, Omega, = before, after and is.The changeless form of God, singularity of context and adhesive being, source, sovereign and ruler of all matter, energy, time and space OF which God is the Source.
Christ The ONE ~ ONE demonstrative as.......ALL in ALL.....of, in, with, through, by, all, everything, everywhere for all time, space, energy, matter and consciousness.
Act 17:28 For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring. Look at Scientists. They too are looking beyond, quarks, up force, down force, quantum particles that make up everything that exists from the farthest star and galaxy to the photon energy expelled in nucleic collision. They are now looking at the equation that proves there is “something” that makes mass out of atoms, energy, space, time, magnetism, gravity, and they can’t find it yet they have proof. They have the equation but not the thing itself. Like seeing the wind but not catching it. Seeing the evidence but no culprit. No body, no crime. They are looking for the body! They are looking for physical evidence of molecular existence. They want to see the law giver and are following the lines ,laws and foot prints of existence. . ............and energetically to find the ONE>
That word ONE, for me, contains the of, with, by and in of all that God IS, doing, has done and will ever BE.
Thanks for a great, out of the box kind OF thread!
Blessings
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