God Nature

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-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Shaw <mshaw@teleplex.bsu.edu>
To: higher-fire@prairienet.org <higher-fire@prairienet.org>
Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: God Nature


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>[Bro. Smrekar]:
>>A believer is transformed into the image of Christ, All our lives we've
>been
>>in the image of Satan until we obeyed Act 2:38. . .
>
>[Matthew]:
>Dear Bro. Smrekar, I'm not real sure I agree with this comment.  We are
>created in the image of God.  Certainly, I believe that we are shapen in
>iniquity, but I believe that we still have the image of God at birth.  Our
>nature (and not our image) is the problem.  Even then, I think we should
>only say that we have the nature of Adam, not of Satan.


    If Adam had not fallen, I would agree with you, but since the fall of
Adam, we aquired the nature of Satan, this would explain why Jesus said of
the Pharisees"you are of your Father the Devil," He saw into their hearts,
and the heart is the the true father of us all. An unbelievers heart is of
the Devil, A believer who receives Acts 2:38, aquires the spirit of Christ
and that spirit becomes his/her father.
>Blessings.
>
>All Honour to Christ Jesus.
>
>Matthew Shaw
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