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God's plan for you and me
To give us a new spirit, to rebirth our new inner man
God's plan to be reconciled with His creation man (you and me), who were spiritually dead because of Adam and Eve's disobedience, was to give man (you and me) a new spirit so that we could be spiritually reunited with our creates.
We are made in God's image, and God does not create bad creatures
Genesis 1:26-27.
To find out who we are, we must find out who God is, since we are made in His image.
The Bible teaches that God is Spirit, see John 4:23-24
If God is Spirit and we are made in God's image, then we are spirit creatures.
We are Spirit that has a soul that lives in a body.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
God's plan for us was revealed through the prophet Ezekiel
Ezekiel 11:19 I give you a new heart and a new spirit. I will take out your hard heart and give you instead a docile and obedient heart, 20 so that you will want to obey my commands and do what I say. Then you will be my people and I will be your God.
Ezekiel 36:26 I will change you from within by giving you a brand new heart that longs to do what is right and a new spirit within you so that you learn to think in a brand new way. I will take out your old and stubborn heart of stone and give you a new and obedient heart. 27 I will give you my Spirit so that you obey my laws and do what I command you.
God put a longing in man by creating man with a longing for God so they could find him.
Acts 17:25-27
25 Nor does he need humans to provide for his needs. On the contrary, it is he who gives men life and breath and everything else. 26 He made all races descend from the same man and scattered the peoples over the whole earth. He has determined how long each nation will last and where its borders will go. 27 ((He created man with a longing for God)), so that in their groping they might find him. He is not very far away from a single one of us,
The inner man ((the spiritual man)) described in the Bible
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God.
2 Cor 4: 16 Therefore we do not become discouraged, because even if our outer man perishes, our inner man is renewed day by day.
Ephes 3:16 and pray that in the riches of his glory he will give you power to be strengthened in the inner man by his Spirit,
2 Corinthians 5:17
So: If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old is gone, behold, something new has come!
1 Pet 3:4 but in the heart, the hidden man, with a meek and quiet spirit imperishable beauty, which is of great value in the sight of God.
It is our task to strip off the old man and put on the new man
Ephes 4:22 that you should put off the ((old man)), which belongs to your past life, and which is destroyed by its seductive lusts, and that (((You should be renewed in mind and spirit))) and ((put on new man)), created in the image of God with the righteousness and piety of truth.
Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, for you have put off the old man with his deeds ((and put on the new man)) who is renewed in the image of his creator to have knowledge.
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