Part
1
The
Origin of Life
The
SOURCE of All Created Life is God, as the One and Only Uncreated Divine
& Eternal Life.
God
Himself as "The Life"
and the "fountain" or source of all
life.
9
For with thee is the
fountain of life... Psalm
36:9a
1)
God is The Divine Life; the One Life that has the nature
& quality of God Himself.
·
God's Life inherently bears the nature of God,
just as a gold cup has the quality of gold and is inherently incorruptible
(cf., Rom 1:23).
·
God's Life is limitless
and transcends All. All other kinds of life are limited,
subject to limits; e.g., sickness, decay and death.
·
God's nature is one of righteousness
and justice. (cf., Rom 3:22, 26)
·
God as Love outflows His life to others as an
"other-lover," He is the giver of Life to others.
"God
so loved the world, that HE GAVE his
only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life (Zoë, the eternal spirit-life of the
Son). (John 3:16, cf., 1Jn 5:11-12)
2)
God is The Eternal life; the one Who has always existed; without
beginning or ending.
Eternality
is only one inherent characteristic of God's
Divine Life.
Psalm
90:2 Before
the mountains were brought forth, or ever
thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from
Everlasting To Everlasting, thou art
God.
·
God
is the "I
AM," not the "I was" or
"I will be." As the "I
Am," we find God in the "now."
Exodus
3:14
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I
AM...
- God's
is the Self-existent Life.
John
5:26 For as the Father
hath Life In Himself;
so hath he given to the Son to have Life
In Himself;
- God's
life that is Independent of Circumstances & Environment.
Isaiah
53:2 For he
(Messiah) shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as
a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
- "Eternal
life" denotes 2 aspects
of God's life; 1) having the real life and,
2) living without limit.
Compare
this to the earthly in which inanimate
stone elements will be burned up in the end.
2
Corinthians 5:1 For
we know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved,
we have a building of God, an house not
made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
- God's
life is the Indestructible and Unlimited life
Acts
2:24
(Jesus) Whom God hath raised up,
having loosed the pains of death: because it
was not possible that he should be holden
(held)
of it. Hebrews
7:16 (Jesus is) made… after the Power
Of An
Endless Life.
Only
"Eternal Life" can be called "The Real Life." Being
Eternal, God's Spirit-Life is the
only REAL LIFE
qualified to be called "LIFE."
- All
Created Life, is temporal and mortal, subject to
limits by decay and death.
- Mortal
life is unable to survive the killing
blow. We see this in Jesus of Nazareth, who as the Son of
Man, "gave up the
Spirit" and died in His human body that He had
acquired from His human mother, Mary. Jesus' human "body"
lineage went back to Adam (Luke 3:38).
- Man's
human life is only the image or shadow of
God's life, yet potentially destined to become an
expression of God's life.
- Limited
by his mortal life, mankind
is enslaved to self-interest, to preserve it as getters, not
givers.
- Having
of God's Eternal Life sets believers free from
concern for their human life. (cf., 2Cor 1:8-9)
The
Bible clearly says Jesus Christ is God (cf., Isa 9:6),
and He brought "The
Life" (Jn
14:6) to men.
The Greek
"Zoë,"
translated "life"
in the Bible, refers to "the
eternal spirit-life that is of God Himself."
John
1:4 In
him (Jesus) was life
(Zoë life); and the
life was the light of men.
John
11:25 Jesus
said
unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life (Zoë): he that believeth in
me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live (zao, experience His Spirit of Life).
1
John 5:11-12 And
this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal
life (Zoë), and this life
is in his Son. 12
He that hath the
Son hath life (Zoë); and
he that hath not the Son of God hath not life (Zoë).
