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I have gone back to your post a
few times to think about and digest it, JD, and I am particularly appreciating
the section below:
Debbie
I see an individual reality and a corporate resulting (a
continuing action) described here in this Galatian passage.
It is something that happens to me -- this immersion
-- but it is something that happens to the
corporation. As many of you as "have been immersed" is
a passive verb !!! It is something that happens to us (to
me). We are being immersed fully and completely by Another
(hence the "faith of Christ") and in this immersion process we are "putting on
Christ." This "putting on Christ," I am told, is a putting
on as one would put on clothing ...... one leg at a time, a
sock, a shoe, a head covering.
A person is not born
into the family of faith a full-grown child of God -- but one of many
contradictions and personal battles. I believe that this "putting
on" is something that God does to us in the immersion process. In
fact, speaking for myself, I believe I can say that I know this to be
true. But more than a personal and individual "putting on," we have
process that creates a corporate body -- believers put together by
this immersing. I will leave it at that -- but there
are very important implications as we tie what happens here in this forum, as
we tie TT to the fact of this immersing process.
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