Being Born Again

God formed Adam’s body.

He breathed into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life—his spirit. 

Spirit+body=living soul.

Spirit=God consciousness:  Conscience-intuition-communion-divine conversation between God and man

Soul=Self-consciousness:  Mind-self comprehension; emotion-self experience; volition-self expression

Body=World consciousness:  The physical-visible, tangible, audible

God’s Breath or Spirit is Adam’s breath or spirit.  There is a connection between Creator and creation.

Adam sinned, bringing a separation between Creator and creation.

His spirit and body died, meaning they became unresponsive to God.

His spirit followed his body instead of his body following his spirit. 

All of his children experienced the same.

Enter Christ, the last Adam, the second man.

Christ became a man, son of Mary, son of David, son of Judah, son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, son of Shem, son of Noah, son of Seth, son of Adam, son of God.

Christ became the last “Adam,” the last of son of Adam, the last son of God.  He was born of God and woman.  His connection to God was the Spirit, and His own Divine Identity.  His connection to Adam was Eve.  God decided Christ was the last Adam, the last descendent of Adam.  All humans came from God through Adam, thus from Christ through Adam.  So Christ is the true father of the human race, the true source. 

Being the God Man, He is in time and beyond time.  So in time He is a son of Adam, and beyond time He is a Son of God.  He takes all before Him and all after Him into Himself, because all before Him and all after Him come from him.  So He has the right to be the last Adam and the second man, being the beginning and the end of all creation.  At the resurrection He became the firstborn of the new creation.  All who accept Him join him, being one with Him.  Their old spirit died with Him on the cross, since spiritual reality is not bound by time or space.  His death is eternal.  Our spirits journey back in time and die with him, rise with Him, and ascend with Him.

The old me was a slave of idolatry and adultery.  The new me is a slave of the spirit, completely free.  Only the Spirit has authority over me.  This takes faith.  I believe God can do more than I imagine.  Amen.