Let's begin by first considering these verses regarding Christ in relation to the Father (emphasis added):
Hebrews 1:3
New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995):
— And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Hebrews 1:3
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902):
— Who, being an eradiated brightness of his glory, and an exact representation of his very being, also bearing up all things by the utterance of his power, purification of sins, having achieved, sat down on the right hand of the majesty in high places
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The site linked above then lists the Greek Concordance for phrase "the express image" in the verse above as number 5481. They then provide a commentary on this phrase as meaning:
"express image — 'impress.' But veiled in the flesh." In this context, impress means to "apply with pressure so as to imprint …: to produce (something, such as a mark) by pressure …: to mark by or as if by pressure or stamping … an image of something formed by or as if by pressure especially : SEAL [as a seal in the stamp on wax" Merriam-websters.com].
In other words, the Greek is saying that Jesus is an exact imprint of Jehovah like a stamp pressing an image into wax:
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In other words, the Father's nature, form, and divine genes were imprinted onto the flesh of Jesus like a stamp imprinting an image and shape onto wax to form a seal. So that Jesus is a stamped imprint of Father Jehovah, formed into the exact nature and being of the Father, but duplicated onto earthly flesh.
An this online greek concordance clarifies it further (emphasis added):
G5481
… from the same as G5482; TDNT - …
—Greek Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)
1) the instrument used for engraving or carving
2) the mark stamped upon that instrument or wrought out on it
2a) a mark or figure burned in (Lev. 13:28) or stamped on, an impression
2b) the exact expression (the image) of any person or thing, marked
likeness, precise reproduction in every respect, i.e. facsimile
...—Strong's (Greek Dictionary of the New Testament)
#5481.
χαρακτη´ρ
charaktēr; from the same as 5480; a tool for engraving:—
NASB - exact representation(1).
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Note that a facsimile is "an exact copy," for example: "A facsimile of the world's first computer was exhibited at the museum" (merriam-webster.com).
This site also quotes the following scriptures:
John 14: 8,9:
Philip saith unto Him, LORD, shew us The FATHER, and it sufficeth us. [Jesus] saith unto him, "have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen The FATHER, and how sayest thou then, Shew us The FATHER?
John 1:14 "and THE WORD was made Flesh and Dwelt among us, (and we Beheld His Glory, The Glory as of The Only (monogenes) Begotten of The FATHER), full of Grace and Truth. AMEN ! ! !
In other words, Jesus is the exact cast image of Jehovah, as the monogenes of Jehovah, the only precise reproduction in every respect, i.e. the facsimile of Jehovah, an exact representation and likeness of Jehovah: as basically Jehovah's identical twin formed in flesh as a copy of Father Jehovah's noomatic body. In other words, the Father as a spirit personage of spirit (see Lecture 5) copied his express/identical image onto a body of flesh named Jesus. Jesus is thus the Father and the Son (flesh body) as an exact copy of the Father's genome, a flesh-molded-seal or facsimile of Jehovah, the only monogene of Jehovah.
The earliest language to describe Christ is that of Christ as a "seed" implanting the divine gene. Paul uses the language of plant biogenesis and grafting Gentiles into Israel through Christ's spiritual seed/genus; making Christians new creatures through the seed of Christ. The Gospel of John speaks in terms of Christ being like grain that dies and sprouts anew and is called the Vine and Christians' the Branches carrying the divine "seed" (gene).
The New Testament writers were not using the language of artificial human cloning in a petri dish but a kind of natural duplication like a plant body goes through in producing a seed that is then implanted in soil and sprouts the same plant genus. This is what they experienced in their agricultural and farming culture, and it is the language and description of Father-Jehovah basically reproducing himself just like a Vine produces branches that produce fruit that produces seeds that sprout the same Vine genus.
This is why Paul refers to Christ as "the first fruits" (1 Corinthians 15: 23), as Christians who resurrect essentially sprout as a new genus with resurrection-bodies (1 Cor. 15); as Christians are being "conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren" (Romans 8:29 RSV). The Son (Jesus) is the Only Unique Genome of the Father, an exact facsimile (copy) of Jehovah; and Jesus changes his flesh body into a divine resurrection-body and then breathes that gene code into his disciples.
In chapters 4 through 5 of his book From Eternity to Here, author Frank Viola argues that in the Bible, Jesus is presented as the genus of a new species. Jesus is like a grain that once planted in soil begins to sprout (see John 12:24). This sprouting is described metaphorically as a Vine with branches: Christ as the Vine, Christians as the branches. Viola writes that just as Adam had Eve in his rib cage (as God takes from Adam to make Eve), Jesus had his bride (the Ekklesia/"churches") in his rib cage. In other words, to summarize, Jesus is replicating his divine genus in order to create a divine species of humans that live, and move, and breathe differently as new creations. Just as Adam is put into a deep sleep and Eve came from his side, Viola points out that in John's gospel, as Christ's side is cut water flows out (see John 4:10 and Rev 21:6). This made me think of how Jesus says he is living waters and to be born of water and breath/spirit.
So what we have here is Christ replacing Adam's genus, so that when one is grafted onto the Vine (Christ's genus) one receives a new genus of living waters and divine breath, that replaces the dirt-body genus of Adam that dies with a new pneumatic ("noomatic") body that never dies.
The Good News is simply a horticultural message, that the Messiah had been killed, planted and sprouted, and his spirit-genus can now implant into you a divine nature that replaces your Adamic body with a new heavenly-made (noomatic) body. The Christ seed died to sprout a vineyard of noomatic bodies, as grafted in new branches to God's Species, through the roots and trunk of Christ-as-a-genus; and these branches then bear good fruit as shining lights. The Gospel then is the Good News of humans becoming a new genus, a new species as immortal luminous beings.
Listen to Frank Viola explain how the churches are really an organism as a new species of Jesus People here: Reimagining Church: Chapter One
Let's now return to John 12:24 (note the helpful footnotes from The Passion Translation):
24 Let me make this clear:[a] A single grain of wheat will never be more than a single grain of wheat unless it drops into the ground and dies. Because then it sprouts and produces[b] a great harvest of wheat—all because one grain[c] died.[d]
Footnotes:
[a] The Aramaic is translated “Timeless truth I say to you.”
[b] The Aramaic has an interesting word play with “it dies” (myta) and “it produces” (mytya).
[c] The “one grain” is Jesus Christ, who [after His crucifixion] ... will “drop” into the ground as “a grain of wheat” and bring forth a great “harvest” of “seeds.” This parable given to Philip and Andrew was meant to be Jesus’ reply to the request by the non-Jewish seekers to see Jesus. Christ’s answer? “They will see me through you. As you follow me, you will also experience the dying and birthing experience.” The harvest among the nations will come when we follow Jesus where he goes.
[d] The Aramaic is translated “if it dies, it will bring forth a great rebirth.”
In the Gospel of John, Jesus is described as a sprouting seed, a Life-giving spirit-body (genus) that spreads His DNA into many spirit-bodied Brethren (and Sisters). Paul describes this as Christ being the firstborn SON among many Sons, note that women are included in this terminology.
How do Christians receive the Divine DNA (Seed) of Christ?
The Passion Translation explains it well:
John 3:5 (TPT):
Jesus answered, “... Unless you are born of water[a] and Spirit-wind, you will never enter God’s kingdom realm.
Footnote [a]:
... Some see in the water and Spirit analogy the creative beginning of Gen. 1, where God’s Spirit fluttered over the chaotic waters. New creation life comes the same way. ... He was the last Adam giving birth to his bride ...
John 20:22 (TPT):
Then, taking a deep breath, he [Jesus] blew[a] on them and said, “Receive [the Sacred Breath]"
Footnote [a]: The Greek word used here does not appear elsewhere in the New Testament, however, it is the same word found in the Septuagint for God “breathed” into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life (Gen. 2:7). The beginning of new creation life came from the breath of Jesus. The mighty wind of Acts 2 was for power, the breath Jesus breathed into his disciples in this verse was for life.
Note that I took footnote [b] in the above verse in the TPT and placed it into the last verse above in brackets so that it reads "the Sacred Breath."
1 John 3:9 (TPT):
Everyone who is truly God’s child will refuse to keep sinning because God’s seed[n] remains within him, and he is unable to continue sinning because he has been fathered by God himself.
Footnote [n]: This is the Greek word sperma, “male seed.” ...
1 Peter 1:23 (TPT):
For through the eternal and living Word of God you have been born again. And this “seed” that he planted within you can never be destroyed but will live and grow inside of you forever…
The Bible in Basic English translation of this verse makes it clear that the word "seed" is referring to male sperm:
1 Peter 1:23 (BBE)
Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
The MSG and AMPC translations makes it even clearer:
1 Peter 1:23 (MSG):
Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God's living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself!
1 Peter 1:23 (AMPC)
You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God.
We now move to 2 Peter 1:4 (TPT):
As a result of this, ... you can experience partnership[d] with the divine nature ...
Footnote [d]: The Greek word koinonos means “to participate as a partner, to partake of, to be a companion with, to have fellowship with” the divine nature. ... We are given birth by the [the Sacred Breath] to be God’s true sons and daughters, and every father imparts his DNA and his “nature” to his children. The Greek word physis (nature) is taken from the word phyō, which means “to give birth, produce, bring forth, or to grow up.” …. In Christ we share with him the divine nature. ...
The TPT ends that last footnote [d] by saying basically that those women and men who are seeded ("spiritually inseminated") by Jesus' heavenly sperma (divine DNA), are future "brides of Christ," and are to bear the image of Jesus. Thus the theologian N.T. Wright refers to Christians as image-bearers. Just as a child bears the image of their parents (their training, example, countenance, etc.), we are to bear the image of Christ. In short, those humans who have died to their mortal flesh -- and have been seeded/inseminated by Jesus' Seed/Sperma/Genus -- are now children of Christ. Note that the Book of Mormon describes Christians as children of Christ.
So we can clearly see a pattern here, first Christ is the exact genome of Jehovah imprinted into flesh, and then Christ shared the divine gene through the spiritual sperma/seed breathed into Christians so that they partake of the divine nature/DNA by adoption.
1 Corinthians 15 is all about how the flesh-body (perishable mortal body) is buried at death like the shell of a seed in soil, which is discarded and perishes (the shell rots) while the living soul (intelligence) inside the shell transforms itself and sprouts out of the soil as a new plant-like body, a noomatic body sprouting forth. So Paul is saying that the person will transform from their flesh-body into a spirit-body at the resurrection, just as a seed transforms into a plant-body.
We see further evidence of all this in the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) of John 1:1-2, 16, 18, quoted below from Joseph Smith Translation by Kenneth and Lyndell Lutes: which shows the words Joseph Smith added in bold font and the words crossed out are words Smith deleted:
1 In the beginning was the Word gospel preached through the Son. And the gospel was the word, and the word was with God the Son, and the Son was with God, and the Word Son was of God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. … 16 For in the beginning was the Word, even the Son, who is made flesh, and sent unto us by the will of the Father. And as many as believe on his name shall receive of his fullness. And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for even immortality and eternal life, through his grace. … 18 For the law [of Moses] was after a carnal commandment, to the administration of death; but the gospel was after the power of an endless life, through Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father.
Note the added words and editing to form “Son was of God” which to me points to the Son being of the genome of the Father. The words “... in the beginning was the Word, even the Son, who is made flesh, …” means to me that the Son was was first a noomatic form and then emptied himself of that divine form and was made flesh so that Christians “shall receive of his fullness” (which fullness is through the Holy Spirit per Lecture 5, which is carrying the divine energy and genes of the Father); which fullness donates the genome of “eternal life, through his grace.” Compare Lecture 7.
Christ as the Monogene
In his article Jesus our Lord, the Divine Son of God, Dr. Ralph F. Wilson writes:
One of the characteristic titles in John's Gospel is Jesus as God's "only begotten" (KJV, NASB), though modern translations tend to translate it as "One and Only" (NIV) or "only" (NRSV, ESV). The word in question is the adjective monogenēs, which means, "pertaining to being the only one of its kind within a specific relationship, one and only, only."[68] Here, "pertaining to being the only one of its kind or class, unique (in kind)," of something that is the only example of its category.[69],[70] Jesus is utterly unique. He is not just another created human being. He is unique from the Father.
Some scholars tell us that we shouldn't overly stress the idea of begetting, since technically the word derives from the verb ginomai, "be born, become," rather than gennaō, "beget."[Morris, John, p. 105, fn. 93. This compound adjective is formed from monos, "sole, single" + genos, "kind." Brown (John 1:13) says, "Monogenēs describes a quality of Jesus, his uniqueness, not what is called in Trinitarian theology his 'procession.'"] However, since all nine uses in the New Testament are found in connection with a parent and child, begetting is clearly implied….
John's use of the word monogenēs indicate that Jesus is utterly unique in his Sonship. We become sons and daughters of God by spiritual birth or adoption (depending upon which analogy you choose).
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Jesus is not Jehovah's clone but the only monogene, the only exact copy (facsimile). In this article, BEGOTTEN OR CLONED? (2016 July-August), Simon R. D. Roberts criticizes man-made artificial cloning and then explains that:
… The Creator God designed us to have two parents (Genesis 1:27, 28) with half our DNA coming from each. The process of reproduction introduces randomness and provides endless possibilities for the new life at conception. We are certainly "fearfully and wonderfully made" (Psalm 139:14). Cloning, on the other hand, is an exact copy of the original DNA from one parent, which is not how God designed reproduction to work. It was never God's intent for man to be created by cloning from pre-existing DNA.
GOD IS REPRODUCING HIMSELF!
As humans we are mortal (Hebrews 9:27). Without Christ we would face ultimate death as a result of sin, which we have all committed (Romans 5:12; 6:23). Scripture reveals how, amazingly, God intends to reproduce Himself. It requires our voluntary submission, repentance and baptism to receive, in essence, God's DNA. The Apostle John tells us that one who has been begotten (gennao, commonly mistranslated as "born") of God, having received God's Spirit—the very "seed" (Greek sperma) of God—will not practice sin (1 John 3:9). Yes, when a repentant individual is baptised and then receives the Holy Spirit with the laying on of hands by Christ's ministry, the conception of a new creation has taken place (Acts 8:14–17)!
God wants us to become part of His family, a process He initiates by begetting us with His Holy Spirit; His seed. …
In the article Is Jesus God’s “Only Begotten” Son? (December 2, 2022), Dr. Nicholas J. Schaser writes:
As the most famous verse in the New Testament goes, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16). The Greek term for “only begotten” is μονογενής (monogenés), a compound word that the above translation assumes is made up of μόνος (translated “only”) and γίνομαι (“to become”). Two issues arise with the rendering of μονογενής as “only begotten.” First, according to the prologue of John’s Gospel, God does not “beget” the Son; rather, the divine being who would become incarnate in Jesus is coexistent with the Father: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God” (John 1:1-2). Second, Israel’s Scriptures describe God having more than one “son,” [see: Sorting Out the “Sons of God” By Dr. Nicholas J. Schaser] so Jesus being the “only” Son runs counter to previous biblical witness. Instead of translating μονογενής as “only begotten,” it is more theologically accurate to understand Jesus as the “one-of-a-kind” or “unique” Son of God.
The first half of μονογενής (from monos) can mean “only,” but it can also mean “one”—as in “monotheism,” the belief in the existence of one God. Based on the assumption that μονογενής derives from the verb γίνομαι (“to become”), traditional English translations speak of Jesus as the “only begotten” of God. However, the latter part of monogenés comes from the Greek word γένος (génos)—hence the Latin, biological term genus—which means a “kind” or “species.” Therefore, a more literal rendering of μονογενής is “one of a kind.”
The notion that Jesus is the “one-of-a-kind” Son, rather than the “only begotten,” makes much better sense of the biblical data. According to Israel’s Scriptures, God has many “sons.” [See Is There Only One God? By Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg]. For instance, the heavenly “sons of God” (בני האלהים; benei ha’elohim) notice the “daughters of humanity” (בנות האדם; benot ha’adam) and produce the Nephilim in the days of Noah (Genesis 6:2-4). Moses declares that God divided national borders based on the “number of the sons of God” available to govern the non-Israelite nations (Deuteronomy 32:8). These same “sons of God” appear before the Lord in the divine council according to Job’s prologue (Job 1:6; 2:1) and exist in the heavens prior to earthly creation (Job 38:7). The psalmist asks, “For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the sons of God (בני אלים; benei elim), a
God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?” (Psalm 89:6-7). The psalm clarifies that while no one is like God in terms of greatness and exaltation [see Is There “No Other” God? By Dr. Nicholas J. Schaser]—which is why the Lord is called the “Most High God” (אל אליון; el elyon) throughout Scripture—other “sons of God” exist in the heavenly realm.
The New Testament alludes to the fact that μονογενής means “one of a kind,” rather than “only begotten.” The letter to the Hebrews states, “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his monogenés” (Heb 11:17). Though most English translations say that the patriarch nearly sacrificed his “only” son, his “one and only,” or his “only begotten son” (cf. CEB, ESV, KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV), every Bible reader knows that Isaac was not Abraham’s only son [See: Ishmael and Election By Dr. Nicholas J. Schaser]. However, Isaac was his father’s “one-of-a-kind” son insofar as Sarah’s offspring was the conduit of God’s “continual covenant” with the people of Israel (Genesis 17:19; cf. Romans 9:7-9). As the Word made flesh, Jesus is God’s unique Son [see: And the Word Was with Samuel? By Dr. Nicholas J. Schaser, where we learn that the Word was the Angel of the Lord, i.e. Jehovah as a personage of spirit in Lecture 5]—one who is both with God and is God. All the other heavenly children of God are subordinate to the Most High, whereas the Monogenés of the Lord is coexistent and coterminous with God [covering the same area, being the same in extent as God] … the one-of-a-kind Son from the Father who is set apart in glory above all other sons of God.
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This is pretty close to saying that Jesus is Jehovah's duplicate Genome, His genetic twin. As the phrase the Monogenés of Jehovah, would mean the Only Gene of Jehovah: as mono is a prefix that means “one, only, single.” So Jesus is the one and only single genome/genes of Jehovah, as a one of a kind duplication of God's divine nature (DNA).
In the article Cloning and the Virgin Birth by John Morris, Ph.D. (Dec. 01, 2007), we read:
As far as science knows, there has never been a virgin birth of a man or a mammal under natural circumstances. Such life comes only from the union of a male and female. But now cloning technology seemingly provides an alternate explanation for Christ's miraculous conception. For the first time it is scientifically possible for Mary to have borne a child without a man. Is spontaneous cloning behind the story of the virgin birth?
Reproduction without sexual union has been observed in some fish, amphibians, birds, and reptiles. In recent years, cloning in laboratories has even been successful with several mammals, although great care and advanced technology is required. Progress is being made, and we can expect cloning to become mainstream practice before long. Even human cloning, while discouraged by many governments, is being aggressively explored by several labs. (I suspect the strident insistence for embryonic stem cell research has human cloning as an unstated goal.) Unless God intervenes, advances in cloning technology may lead to a brave new world of human clones, with Pandora's Box opened wide.
But is this the same thing as the virgin birth? Would human cloning equate to the fulfillment of the biblical prophecy "a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son" (Isaiah 7:14)?
No, it would not. In humans, the DNA in each egg's nucleus contains 23 chromosomes, with the remaining 23 usually supplied by the father. In cloning, the original 23 chromosomes are stripped from an unfertilized egg, and a full complement of 46 from a donor is inserted. The child would possess identical DNA to the donor, with a minor exception--a small segment of DNA present in the cells' mitochondria is passed from mother to child, undiluted by the father.
Is cloning a possible explanation of Christ's birth? If Mary's nuclear DNA was used, the resulting child would have been female. If another source was used, the offspring would have carried Mary's imperfect mitochondrial DNA, mutated over the generations since Adam, and thus could not have been the perfect "lamb without blemish and without spot" (1 Peter 1:19).
1 Peter 1:19:
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot
Cloning is not the answer. While much remains a mystery, the birth of Christ was a miracle in every regard. He said of God the Father, "...a body hast thou prepared |for| Me" (Hebrews 10:5), free from any genetic defect and thus qualified to be a perfect sacrifice. And then, "when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman...to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons" (Galatians 4: 4-5).
Galatians 4:4-5
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4 But when the ·right [appropriate; or appointed; L fullness of] time came, God sent his Son who was born of a woman and ·lived [L born] under the law. 5 God did this so he could ·buy freedom for [redeem] those who were under the law and so we could ·become his children [or receive adoption as heirs; C a Roman legal term for adopting an heir to carry on one’s name].
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So it can't be thought of as cloning as Jesus has only the DNA of Jehovah and was only birthed through Mary's womb. It is instead more like genetic identical twins, as Jehovah implanted his seed/sperma (Unique Gene) into Mary. So instead the Father's Genome was simply duplicated, as Jehovah miraculously reproduced/prepared/formed an exact copy of his noomatic bodily form and genome (a twin duplicate). Thus we read in Hebrews: "...a body hast thou prepared |for| Me" (Hebrews 10:5). Here it is again expanded:
Hebrews 10:5
Expanded Bible
5 So when ·Christ [L he] came into the world, he said:
“You did not ·want [desire] sacrifices and offerings,
but you have ·prepared a body for me [or given me a body].
Parley P. Pratt explained that the Holy Spirit is a fluid material substance carrying and transferring the intelligence of God. This view is substantiated in the section titled Implications of a material conception of Spirit, Divine Seed and Logos, Draper writes:
A confirmation that contemporary ‘science’ in the ancient world considered πνεῦμα [pneuma [nooma]: breath] to be, in some sense, a material substance (albeit invisible), which is conveyed through the σπέρμα [sperma/seed/offspring] in procreation to bring life, is found above all in the medical writings of Galen (129-c199 CE; see especially, De semine).[14] Πνεῦμα [wind, breath i.e. nooma] is not only within the blood as the operative principle within the body, but can pass in and out through the bodily orifices. Outside the body it is found as air (ἀήρ) and is breathed in to the human body where it is refined into psychic πνεῦμα [pneuma/nooma] ... and circulates through the body vivifying its organs. It is the presence of the life-giving πνεῦμα [breath], contained in the human sperma, that facilitates human reproduction (Barrier 2014:6-9). ... I am not so much interested here in the specifics of Galen’s theory as in the fact that the presence of the pneumatic [noomatic] life force within the seed in reproduction was not seen as metaphorical, but as ‘scientific’ and as interrelated with worldview, that is, theological debates and understandings about the world, God and Spirit or spirit. Galen was a follower of the Platonic philosophical school. One could thus argue that in these terms, while Jesus’s dying and rising is not the same as a grain of wheat falling into the ground, dying and growing [John 12:25], and to that extent is a metaphor, nevertheless something more is going on there that relates to the understanding of the Λόγος [Logos] and the life principle in the ancient world. ...
Being born from above (ἄνωθεν) to become a child of God, among many children of God (τέκνα θεοῦ), was not necessarily simply a metaphor for being saved and joining the Johannine community although it clearly has that dimension. It seems more likely that John had a deeper ‘scientific’ understanding connecting this conception and birthing with Jesus as the Λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ [Word of God, see Luke 8:11]. Those who believe in Jesus have the divine πνεῦμα [breath/NOOMA] breathed into them [John 20:22] and are generated as τεκνὰ θεοῦ [god of god] perhaps by the σπερμὰ τοῦ θεοῦ [sperma/seed of God] (implicit but not part of John’s terminology) deriving from the Λόγος Θεοῦ [Word of God] from whom all life comes. ....
In [John 3:15-16] Jesus refers to his lifting up on the cross as the means by which this new kind of life will be mediated when the Spirit [Nooma/Fluid Energy] is transmitted at his death (19:30) on the cross and breathed into his followers (...– 20:22). I take this as an answer to Nicodemus’ question, ‘How can these things be?’ (3:9), which is more direct than indirect. As in 12:25, the new birth is linked with ‘being lifted up’ on the cross, that is, through Jesus’ death in the same fashion as the seed that falls into the ground. Jesus, in other words, implies that there is a kind of holy seed from which the new children of God will be born from above. It implies an impregnation and birthing process ...[from birth as dirt man in Adam who was breathed in by God, toward the birth of an eternal nature by breathing in the genus of the Eternal Logos, the breath/nooma of eternity] ...
The most extensive and consistent recent attempt to compare Philo with John’s Gospel has been made by Gitta Buch-Hansen (2010). Buch-Hansen (2010:31) argues in her own summary on the basis of this comparison that it is the ‘meta-narrative’ of John in which ‘Stoic physics is the glue that makes this version of the Johannine story a coherent narrative’. The narrative consists of a series of four pneumatic [noomatic] transformations of Jesus: First, Jesus is transformed through a δευτέρα γένεσις [second generation] into ‘a divinely begotten child’ when the Spirit [Nooma/Holy Breath] comes down and remains on him at his baptism as attested by John the Baptist (1:32); second, the Spirit [Nooma/Breath] is ‘embodied’ in Jesus’ words and deeds (as signs) leading up to the cross; third, the resurrection climaxes in the ascension and translation of Jesus into pneumatic [noomatic] Father (13:1, 20:17); and finally, believers are regenerated by ‘from above’ (3:3, 5) through ‘the infusion of the Holy Spirit’ [Nooma/Holy Breath] (20:22) in the same way as Jesus. In the end, ‘no ontological difference exists between (the flesh-and-blood) Jesus as the Son of God and subsequent generations of believers as God’s children … Consequently, Jesus is himself among the spirit-born [nooma-born] persons’ (Buch-Hansen 2010:301-302). … a new creation – to paraphrase Paul in Galatians 3:28 and 2 Corinthians 5:1. ...
… To return then to the questions we started with: Can metaphor be defined as ‘contra-factual’ in such a way that it appears absurd if taken literally? Or if this definition is accepted, when does John cease to speak metaphorically? I have tried to problematize this and to show that the hearers, living with the worldview that underpins John’s use of the ‘metaphor’ of seed and conception, would not have found the idea of a seed bearing much fruit by dying, absurd. It matches the Middle-Platonic worldview, influenced by both Plato and the Stoic concept of the Λόγος [Logos]. It is inherent and infused within the κόσμος [world] and shared in a tenuous way by all material life that must die, but which passes on its life through the seed that is within it. ...
I have argued that John’s use of ψυχή and ζωή [soul and life] reflects this Hellenistic Jewish usage found in Philo and that he applies them to Jesus as the Λόγος [Logos] who creates all life as ψυχή [soul], the fragile material existence that yet contains and transmits life through the attenuated seed of the Λόγος [Logos]– a life sustained by the continuous work of the Father and Jesus (simultaneously as One) shining as light in the darkness. Yet, the inherence of the seed of the Λόγος [Logos] in the natural order, offers to all the possibility of a new impregnation and birth through an act of faith in the Λόγος into a new and qualitatively different life (ζωή) that is not susceptible to death, since it is a gift drawn from the very life of the Λόγος [Logos] – the ideal on which all the material types are modelled. ...
So we see from this biblical scholarship, an explanation of Lectures on Faith #5 and Mosiah 15:1-5, etc., with Jesus clearly depicted as the Father and Son in the Book of Mormon, as meaning Jesus is the identical twin replica (or facsimile) of Jehovah, the Monogene of Jehovah; yet Jesus is also a seperate and distinct person as a human body with seperate and unique human experiences; and thus Jesus prays to his identical twin genome (the Father); and Christians are the seed/genus of Christ by recieving the divine genus through Christ's divine seed/gene.
Here is how Metatron Communications explains it in brief outline:
... “The Sperma of YHWH[/Jehovah] [is like a small seed producing a Tree or Garden]” (Matthew 13:24; Mark 4:30-32):
I. THE WORD IS SPERMA: Power Cells of Reproduction
Seed is Sperma: Mark 4:30-32
Messiah, the Sperma of YHWH [Jehovah]
The Word is Sperma
Alive with a Living Reproductive Cell of Its Own Kind
II. THE HEART OR WOMB OF MAN: Pregnant
Receive It (Sperma) to Conceive It
Fertile Heart: Jeremiah 4:3 -- Good Ground: Mark 4:8
Preparation of the Heart: Proverbs 16:1
1. Cultivation: Hosea 10:12; Ezekiel 11:19, 36:26
D. The Issues of Life: Proverbs 4:23
III. [Messiah:], THE SPERMA OF [Jehovah]
A Thy Seed, Which is [Messiah]: Galatians 3:16
B. The Seed should Come: Galatians 3:19
C. The Seed of the Woman: Genesis 3:15
1. Born of man is “flesh sperm” (natural heritage); under sin: John 3:6
2. Born of woman (spirit) is “spirit sperm” (spiritual heritage); under righteousness
a. born again (YHWH/Jehovah) by the Word: 1 Peter 1:23
IV. WE ARE ABRAHAM’S SPERM
A. If Ye be [Messiah’s] Galatians 3:29
B. [Jehovah’s] Seed Remains in Us: 1 John 3:9
C. The Seed that Conquers: Genesis 22:17
D. Promise is Sure to All the Seed: Romans 4:16
V. POWER OF REPRODUCTION
A. Genetic Heritage: The study of the evolution of species and of heredity
B. Generic Heritage: A general class; pertains to a class or kind
C. Law of “After Its Kind”: Genesis 1
D. Seed is in Itself: Genesis 1: -- “Every Word of [Jehovah] is alive with a living reproductive cell of its own kind.” (Spirit & Life - John 6:63)
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