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05-14-2017, 05:55 PM
This is the most difficult section to read in The Spiritual Man, but I think I have it right. My comment is bracketed and darkened.
Part 1, Chapter 1, Page 24
“We must recognize, though, that this spirit is not God’s Own life [Holy Spirit], for “the breath of the Almighty gives me life” (Job 33.4). It is not the entrance of the uncreated life* [eternal life] of God into man, neither is it that life of God [Holy Spirit] which we receive at regeneration What we receive at new birth is God’s Own life [eternal life] as typified by the tree of life. But our human spirit, though permanently existing, is void of “eternal life.”
We receive the same life of the Holy Spirit which is eternal.
* page 45, "This is eternal life, God's nature, His uncreated life." uncreated = eternal life (in the PDF, CFP has changed uncreated to untreated. That is completely wrong. CFP makes the same mistake again on page 45. Untreated waters down uncreated. Literally those who are born-again have eternal life which is not untreated but uncreated. God's uncreated life is imparted to us giving us a life that is eternal where the Holy Spirit can indwell us.
Untreated doesn't even make any sense.
Part 1, Chapter 1, Page 24
“We must recognize, though, that this spirit is not God’s Own life [Holy Spirit], for “the breath of the Almighty gives me life” (Job 33.4). It is not the entrance of the uncreated life* [eternal life] of God into man, neither is it that life of God [Holy Spirit] which we receive at regeneration What we receive at new birth is God’s Own life [eternal life] as typified by the tree of life. But our human spirit, though permanently existing, is void of “eternal life.”
We receive the same life of the Holy Spirit which is eternal.
* page 45, "This is eternal life, God's nature, His uncreated life." uncreated = eternal life (in the PDF, CFP has changed uncreated to untreated. That is completely wrong. CFP makes the same mistake again on page 45. Untreated waters down uncreated. Literally those who are born-again have eternal life which is not untreated but uncreated. God's uncreated life is imparted to us giving us a life that is eternal where the Holy Spirit can indwell us.
Untreated doesn't even make any sense.