Hello All.

I would like to offer something that may be of help to some of us in seeing things in a clearer manner. We know there are many surmisings about existence by many people and they can differ widely. If a human child considered him/herself to be ALREADY fully grown up and able to do everything an adult can do already, we would know that the child was thinking more of itself than was true. This is quite common for children, as they always want to be seen as grown up.

In a human baby the life in the baby is not created, it existed before the body of the baby did. The life in the baby is the same life that was and still is in the parents of the baby, but the baby is not already a parent.

Thus, we are not already god. If the scripture says "ye are gods", that does not mean we are GOD. The word gods just speaks of differeing "powers" and abilities, not ONE and unified in other words. God is ONE, no matter how many vessels God is LORD IN.

A human baby has life in his body, but the body is what is CREATED or FORMED for the purpose of containing of holding that LIFE.

So it is with man in the world. The body of man is not going to be a cast away, it has an eternal purpose.

But when the baby is born, the life in the baby now becomes subject to the weakness, ignorance, and life time encounters and problems the baby will have as it grows up to be an adult. Supposedlly, as a human adult, the baby is to be able to prevent the problems it used to have and be subject to because of immaturity in times past.

Being mature in Christ is what the bible speaks of as the time of the fulfillment of the promises of God. They are for the mature MAN, and if we are still blown about by winds of doctrines and ungodly {immature} desires and judgments and so on in our own lives, we are NOT yet GOD any more than a baby is a parent with all the ability and knowledge of the parents.

Our bodies are what are going to be the INCREASE of the Kiingdom of God\Christ. But the very fact that tells us that we do not yet know or understand everything tells us we are not already as God is.

I am not trying to take anything away from anyone and if what I say bothers them, that is not my intent. But in any area where we are "pretending something", even if we do not know we are, we are going to have problems and if we do not move toward maturity we will have more problems. {ie.. lose our oasis}.

God bless, keny