There is so much neglected in catechism. Catechisms are for Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Churches, as well as Anglicans whose doctrine is not reformed, so I do not include them as Protestant churches.
‘Catechisms’ are oral teachings
of church doctrine. Ideally, all church doctrines should be the same, but
because of misunderstanding, church doctrines differ from the one doctrine of
Christ as is written:
There is one Body, and one Spirit, even as
you are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one
God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephes 4:4-6)
There is one faith, but the
various doctrines of the different churches extol different faiths. As Paul
wrote, faith is on the Body and Spirit of the Lord and no other. That one Lord
is the One God who is the Father of all who is above, through, and in you all.
Who is the “all” in that context?
Is it everyone?
It is for those who are called.
However, “many are called, but few are chosen” (Mat 22:14). The criterion for selection
is that “you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called” (Ephes 4:1).
Those who walk the true walk are the saints (Ephes 4:12). They walk the
doctrine of Christ and do not march to the drum of other doctrines. Hence, catechism
is important.
Among the most deficient in
understanding of teachings is that the Lord God is the ‘Father’ of all. Some
take it to mean that God is the Father of very unsaintly people. Just because
someone calls another ‘Father’ does not make a father.
God is our Father by adoption, “You
have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, ‘Abba, Father’”
(Rom 8:15). Adoption is “the nature and condition of the true disciples in
Christ, who by receiving the Spirit of God into their souls become sons of God”
The reception of that Spirit of
God; that ‘one Spirit’ is adoption. Christians are not ‘sons of God’ in a biological
sense but spiritually. True Christians would have the supra-nature of
God — beyond the natural. The chosen are ‘peculiar people’ (1 Pet 2:9), walking
in the same Spirit of God. But that is not the case; denominations war with
each other, sometimes in arrogance.
God is the Father of all those
with one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. The one baptism is the Baptism of
the Holy Spirit because that defines adoption. Without the baptism of the Holy
Spirit, there is no rebirth.
Nicodemus wondered about rebirth.
He failed to understand how someone could be born of the Spirit. Jesus answered
that with, “Marvel not; you must be born again” (John 3:7). No, He did not say
those exact words; He said, that you must be “gennao anothen” — gendered
anew (from above; ibid).
Gennao root is gen and
means that a person must be generated by God above in this case, or made
a new kind, or family. As a ‘son of God’ that is not a biological relationship,
but that a person has become of the family of God.
For instance, all three Caesar’s
were the father Vespasian, the son Titus, and another son, Domitian; both
having the authority of the father in his absence. Those three were of the
gen of Flavius, and after Josephus joined them, he became part of the
Flavian family by adoption and was named ‘Flavius Josephus.’ He assumed the role of the son of an early member of the
family, or house, of Flavia. He was by adoption the ‘son of Flavia’ although it
was neither genetic nor immediate.
The cognomen of Josephus became
his first name because he took it upon himself. It was not a birth name.
The biological sons of Vespasian
had his genes and his nature. They, like their father, were ‘sons of Flavia,’
and ancient ancestor.
As for Josephus, he was not born
a Flavian but was ‘reborn’ in a sense when he became Latinized as an important
person in Rome. He got his new vocation as well, going from a Jewish general to
a Jewish historian. His nationality did not change, but only his vocation, or
walk.
The same applies to Christians.
We become ‘sons of God’ regardless of nationality or heritage because our
vocations are reassigned; no longer are we to walk our way, doing whatever we
desire to do, but take on the supra-nature of God just as Jesus had.
Jesus was often called ‘son of
David,’ albeit He was not the biological son of King David. He was also called ‘Son
of God’ although He was more than biological. He was the exact Image of
God. His genetics were the very genetics of the Father because He was God in
the Flesh.
“Image’ in the Hebrew is ‘Selem,’
and means a Shadow or Phantom. Jesus was not the ‘Son of God’ in a biological
sense, but the Phantom, or Ghost of God, manifested in the flesh of the Man.
Jesus was fully God and fully Man since He had the flesh, or genes, of Mary covering
the very Invisible Image of God.
We have been taught correctly,
but still misunderstand; Jesus is not the ‘Son of God’ in a human manner, but
the Spirit of God that God covered with flesh just as He covered Adam with a
coat of skin (Gen 3:21). When you see Jesus, God is within that flesh. When John
baptized Jesus, the Man was in the water, but He was gendered by God
above, to wit: “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove
upon him, and a Voice came from heaven, which said, “You are My beloved Son; in
You I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22).
Jesus was made the ‘Son of God’
at His baptism when the Holy Ghost — the Invisible Image of God — came upon Him
in bodily shape. God took on the shape of a Man and covered Jesus just as He
had Adam long before, making Jesus the ‘Last Adam’ (1 Cor 15:45).
Jesus was fully man when Mary gave
birth to Him, but became fully God when John baptized Him, as John was unworthy
to do that; God Himself baptized Jesus with the Holy Ghost — His own Spirit.
Jesus was often tested by those in the know. Now examine the following exegesis:
(The Pharisees) Saying,
“What think you of Christ? Whose Son is He? They say unto Him, ‘The son of
David.’
He saith unto them, “How
then does David in spirit call him ‘Lord,’ saying, ‘The Lord said unto my Lord,
sit you on my right hand, till I make thine enemies your footstool? If David
then call Him Lord, how is He His son?’”
And no man was able to
answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask Him any more
questions. (Mat 22:42-46)
I hope I have answered that! God
the Father was the gens of David (in Spirit) and since Jesus was the
very gens of both God and David, Jesus was both the ‘Son of God’ and the
‘son of David.’
David was the son of God by ‘adoption’
— a man after God’s own heart — and Jesus was the ‘son of David’ through the
genetics of Mary. Jesus was both the ‘son of Man’ by Mary’s genetics and the ‘Son
of God’ because God was in Him. He had the very Gens, or Image of God.
Now consider the ignorance of the
Pharisees. They were never taught genetics. They failed to understand that the
very Identity of the Lord God was in both Adam One and Adam Two. They were both
generated glorious but Adam’s genetics were mutated with sin.
God came back in the Person of
Jesus to correct the genetics of Adam and his kind: “(Jesus)Whom God has set
forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the
forbearance of God” (Rom 3:25).
Note that I italicized “sins that
are past.” Those sins are the iniquity, or depravity, that still exists in all
of Adam’s kind because of original sin. Jesus shed His blood to correct Mary’s
kind from the “mother of all living,” Eve’s kind (Gen 3:20). It should humble a
lost person that he or she is not fully humane!
It is the blood of Jesus and His
Spirit — the ‘Living Water’ — that corrects genetic sins, making Christians, ‘saints,’
or ‘sons of God’ and fellow heirs (Ephes 3:6) by adoption, along with Jesus, as
God comes unto as well!
Jesus somehow sensed when Virtue
left Himself, as He said on several occasions. It must be that Jesus sensed
Virtue coming onto Him when He was baptized by the Holy Spirit. As such,
Christians should sense God if He is in them through His plans and purposes for
them.
I write because I sense
God. I don’t feel Him, but God does put Thoughts into my mind that are
not my thoughts. The study of the Word of God is Him sharing His Thoughts to
reform our brutish nature; it tames the Beast that has been in mankind since
original sin!
If you have read this commentary
and understood it; then you have been taught doctrine. It is not my doctrine and
neither the doctrine of my church denomination. My desire is to understand God
thoroughly, and my hope is that I understand it correctly. I am not the final
authority, thank you God, so test all things with scripture. I have satisfied
myself that I understand the One Faith of which Paul wrote, and the One Lord
and One Baptism as well.
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