8041	Forums / Main Forum / Complete!	on: January 10, 2007, 02:26:35 PM
Thanks, g-man I do enjoy conversing with you as  well , I am not sure what you mean by my being in Christ.  Let me think through this with you. I do not want to put words in you mouth, but really i am trying to think along with what you are saying.  First , being in Christ does not seem to me to be rapped up in a state of existence that changes from one form to another. As if i were ascending a ladder by a sort of non- being paradigm. That is the less of a being i become the more i will be in Christ. I am not annihilated in order to get lost in Christ. Because Christ is in heaven as a high priest and i am on earth locally. My being in Christ is being indwelt by the Holy Spirit so that when the Holy Spirit is present , Christ is present by His Spirit , and the Father is present. When we are born we are born body and soul. We are body, we are soul. There is not a natural separation , because we were made for eternity to be one in body and soul. Sin caused this unnatural separation. When the bible talks about Christ body, it means all of Christ present in the space and time. When the bible talks about Christ soul, it means all of Christ being present in space and time. There is no separation. These faculties cannot be inter- mixed. It is the same thing with how we exist. We are at all times bodily present and our souls are present in the being in Christ paradigm. Our 5 senses are an intricate part of being in Christ. These senses are not intrinsically evil but are in a state of corruption, because they are mixed with sin. Our bodies are an intricate part of being in Christ. We worship God with our bodies. So that just as our whole being is locally designed to be in a space and time throughout our lives in this finite realm by the sovereign choice of God , so we are existing in a state of sin and corruption and are subject to death. It is equally real that we are in a state of corruption as that we are united to Christ. Does  that go along with what you are saying?