from Jesus Christ. Our spiritual nature as Christians is not
an inherent human nature, but has been converted from a
nature identified with wrath (Eph. 2:2) to “partaking of the
divine nature” (II Peter 1:4) in unified coalition with the
spiritual nature of God in Christ. We are not essentially
spiritual, for that would be to deify man since only “God is
Spirit” (John 4:24); but we derive our spirituality from
spiritual connectivity either with the spirit of error or the
spirit of truth (I John 4:6), the spirit of the world or the
Spirit of God (I Cor. 2:12). Our character is not a
conspicuous feature of personality in accord with social
mores and values, but is determined by the essential
impress of the character of the spirit that indwells us. The
image of God in man is not comprised of innate features of
human creatureliness, nor of disjoined reflections or
representations of God in man, but the reality of the
spiritual presence of God which allows for the visible
expression of the character of God in our behavior when we
have been spiritually renewed to such image in Jesus Christ
(Col. 3:10). Even the essence of our personhood is not
evaluated by the personality characteristics of mental,
emotional and volitional function, but by our oneness with
the Person of God in Christ who by His Trinitarian
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