If God was a single person…
“Love is something one person has for another person. If God was a single person before the world was made, He was not love.”
– C. S. Lewis
Union with Christ 2
“What we could not do for ourselves, God has done for us. He has put us into Christ. Let me remind you of 1 Corinthians 1:30. I think that is one of the best verses of the whole New Testament: ‘Ye are in Christ.’ How? Of him [that is, ‘of God’] are ye in Christ.’ Praise God! It is not left to us either to devise a way of entry or to work it out. We need not plan how to get in. God has planned it; and he has not only planned it but he has also performed it. ‘Of him are ye in Christ Jesus.’ We are in; therefore we need not try to get in. It is a divine act, and it is accomplished.”
– Watchman Nee
Union with Christ
“It is the ‘inclusive’ death of the Lord which puts me in a position to identify myself, not that I identify myself in order to be included. It is God’s inclusion of me in Christ that matters.”
– Watchman Nee
Objective Work of Christ 2
“I am dead and buried with Christ, and risen too, and ascended…. God reckons me so, and tells me to reckon myself so. He knows best…. Oh, the joy of seeing this truth – I do pray that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened, that you may know and enjoy the riches freely given to us in Christ.”
– Hudson Taylor
Finished Work of Christ
“He was crucified: then what about us? Must we ask God to crucify us? Never! When Christ was crucified we were crucified; and his crucifixion is past, therefore ours cannot be future.”
– Watchman Nee
Creature brought to nothing
“It was unworthy of the goodness of God that the creature made by Him should be brought to nothing through the deceit wrought upon man by the devil; and it was supremely unfitting that the work of God in mankind should disappear, either through their own negligence or through the deceit of evil spirits. As, then, the creatures whom He had created … were on the road to ruin, what then was God, being good, to do? Was He to let corruption and death have their way with them?”
– Athanasius
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