The New Nature From God

Most assuredly, I say to you,

he who believes in Me has everlasting life.

I am the bread of life.

your fathers ate the manna

In the wilderness, and are dead.

This is the bread which comes down

from heaven, hat one may eat of it

and not die.

I am the living bread which

came down from heaven.

If anyone eats of this bread,

he will live forever; and the bread

that I shall give is My flesh,

which I shall give for the life of the world.

John 6:47–51

            That which is corporeal cannot become another nature of and from itself, it requires something far different from which it has not the power to create. I asked the question in the last blog: “What is life?” Man can put together in the form of bones, or flesh, or even cells, giving what was made to have blood, and even make the blood circulate, to pump the lungs and make air to enter and be discharged from the lungs, they can do all these things, at least in some manner, but they cannot make what they have formed to have life. Life is not corporeal, it is real, just ask anyone who is alive, and they will agree, there is life, but for most they have no idea from where life comes. Life then is not corporeal, it is spiritual, it is not formed by the power of man, it is formed from a power that has the power to give life, and if it gives life, and has the power of life then it also has the power to maintain life. Scripture informs us of from where life comes and who has the power to give life: “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the g round, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being” (Genesis 2:7). If a person believes in the preexistence of the soul, as do the Mormons, then why does not Scripture tells us that God reached up somewhere in the heavens and pulled down a soul and planted that soul into the body of Adam? He did not tell us this. If you are a Traducianist and believe that the soul is from a parent, then why does not Scripture inform us of this fact? It does not! In fact, only that which is corporeal is passed from one person to another by the life of a person is not from the parent, it is that which God has told us: He gives life and that life is the soul of a person. What the scientist cannot do is to give a soul to a body they may have formed even to having formed it with all the elements what can be found in a body. The creationist follow Scripture and do not put God in the proverbial box and make God able to do only that which they presuppose He can only do; no, they follow Scripture, and they do not box God is so as to make Him stop creating after God created the corporeal, or physical world. It is God who gives life. It is God who then maintains life. It is God who then by His omniscience, His omnipresence, His all powerfulness, that He controls that which He creates while allowing man and all living things to do, to choose, to be real, and make second causes, but only God can Providentially make all causes, all second causes to work out His will while not usurping man’s free choice, or in the case of Adam, his free–will. This is what the Greeks meant with the word: ἀλλὰ λαλοῦμεν θεοῦ σοφίαν ἐν μυστηρίῳ …. We speak of God’s wisdom in a mystery: that is; we speak not from what our eyes see, that which is apparent to the eyes, but what is seen by faith; we cannot know the deep things of God. We can only know what God has revealed to us and not by some ethereal, or supernatural revelation that cannot be proved, rather He speaks to us by means of His word and then impresses that word to our understanding so that we may know something of Him and what He has done and is doing and will do in the future. It is a mystery; life, the soul which is life, and all we know is that the soul is life and can die, and die eternally and whether or not a person desires to argue of the manner of the soul’s death is inconsequential for if the soul is not present with the Lord, then it is removed from the Lord and all the blessings that God through His Son is giving to His children, all that He, God the Father, has given to His Son Jesus Christ. The soul is sinful and this will be covered when I return to the subject directly on original sin and the nature of soul being sinful then needs to have its nature changed. How can this be done if not only by the power of God? God being able to make all things from nothing, ex nihilo, would He not be able to continue to make life for each and every living thing, especially the crown of His creation, man? Yes! What I have attempted to do is to not give something that is certain outside of Scripture, or to explain all sides of the equation as to the soul, only what is admitted is that which is inscrutable as found in Scripture. What has been discovered? God creates the soul and gives to each man the soul of life and God can choose whomever He chooses to have a new nature a new soul, and to have life eternal. It is not the body of Christ that comes down to be eaten by man, or His blood to be drunk as wine, those are corporeal. It is that by faith we receive by the bread and wine that which we cannot see, or touch, and is received be faith. We receive all things from God by faith and this faith is instructed by His word and His word is clear, our souls are from God and Him alone and we who are chosen of God by Him giving us faith we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and are saved from death and have life eternally. Why seek any further? Read God’s word, and believe on His Son by being converted not just a believer, but truly converted and then live according to the new nature given to you.

But God has revealed them to us

            Through His Spirit.

For the Spirit searches all things,

            Yes, the deep things of God.

For what man knows the things of a man

            Except the spirit of the man which

Is in him? Even so no one knows the thing

            Of God, except the Spirit of God.

                                    1Corinthians 2:10–11

Live According To Your New Nature

Richard L. Crumb