Jesus, the tent?

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In a message dated 10/15/98 9:23:27 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
gdrost@mailserv.nbnet.nb.ca writes:

<<  The flesh was *not* God and God was *not* flesh. 
  God (the Spirit) was *in* Christ(that Holy thing born of a woman)
  reconciling
 the world unto himself  (2 Cor.5:19) 
   This is God manifest in the flesh (1Tim 3:16) the mystery of the
   godliness.
                              Mike Reed
 
 I write:
 He is the visible image of the invisible God, Jesus Christ is both 
 God and man, 100% human but without sin, and 100% God, not a part of 
 God or a third of God,etc.  Romans 9:5 is clear "Whose are the 
 fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over 
 all, God blessed for ever. Amen."  Christ is here God over all, 100% 
 God yet as concerning the flesh, that is the humanity, Christ came.  
 Christ is both God and man according to this text.  Humanity died, 
 not divinity, we need to realize the dual nature He had from the day 
 that Sonship became a reality.  He is not eternal Son, He is the 
 eternal God, the creator, the saviour, etc.
 Gerald Drost
 gdrost@nbnet.nb.ca
  >>

So the Man, Christ Jesus was the supreme sacrifice, the Lamb for sinners
slain, "perfect Lamb."  The Man was the vehicle that God used to reconcile
Himself to humanity, and through death, burial and His resurrection, "The Plan
of Salvation" also reconcile man unto God.  And the Almighty God robed Himself
in flesh that He might taste death  and satisfy once and for all the curse of
death that was the result of the fall of man, for you and I.  Just to think
that the Spirit of God would robe Himself  in the weakness of humanity for the
purpose of becoming sin and suffering the judgment that He himself had placed
on sin when Adam and Eve fell, so that you and I could be set free from the
power of sin. Death is swallowed up in victory. O. Death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pastor Fitzgerel