Nature of a Son of GodI asked, "Could you describe the nature or characteristics of a son of God?" "Well, the ian of the word Christian is the diminutive of the word Christ, so a Christian is a photocopy, a carbon copy, of the Christ. That is, he, the new son of God, must have the qualities of the Lord Jesus Christ. "The Christian receives these qualities not because of his human ability to recreate himself but the Bible says that if anyone be in Christ, or a believer, a saved individual, ‘all things are become new.’ Old things are passed away and the individual has become a new creature. "Now, the qualities of a Christian should be progressively more similar to the qualities of the Lord Jesus Christ, who was full of compassion, love, purity, holiness, righteousness, and other virtues. Each book in the New Testament, which is written as a theological treatise is always — at least twenty-five to thirty and sometimes forty percent — an explanation of how to apply the theology, or doctrine, into the life of the Christian. So, if you want it in detail, you can read any of the four Pauline epistles and you’ll get that. Paul summed it up in Romans 12, though: ‘I beseech thee, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present yourselves a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,… and be not conformed to this present world but be transformed to the image of Christ.’" |
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