2 Peter 1:4
Jonathan Burke
jburke at sprint.net.au
Sun Nov 24 06:30:49 EST 2002
Hi Carl,
Thanks for your response:
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First let's correct the transcription, which is not legible in its
transcription above:
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Hmmm, sorry about that. I didn't realise it was so unreadable.
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I'd English GENHSQE as "come to be" and I'd understand it in the sense of
finally achieving the fullness of participation toward which the initial
steps of faith-commitment and spiritual growth have set one's course. In one
of the not uncommon eschatological formulations (such as also refers to the
assertions that the believer "has died and been raised with Christ"), this
is a matter of "already and not yet." The process has begun but isn't
expected to be completed until "the day of Christ." So it's not a matter of
EITHER they now have OR they will have in the future, but rather they BOTH
have now (in part) AND will have (fully) in the future.
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Ok, so to put it simply... they have the Divine nature, and they don't have
the Divine nature?
Jonathan Burke.
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