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Question 5: I still don’t understand. Does Christ have the image of God? God has us emulate Christ, and in the end if we can live out Christ, wouldn’t we have the image of God? Then wouldn’t we become God?

Answer: You say that by emulating Christ, one can ultimately live out Christ and become God. Then we should first understand what the essence of Christ is before we can determine whether one can live out Christ. Let’s first look at the word of Almighty God.

Almighty God’s says: “The incarnate God is called Christ, and Christ is the flesh donned by the Spirit of God. This flesh is unlike any man that is of the flesh. This difference is because Christ is not of flesh and blood; He is the incarnation of the Spirit. He has both a normal humanity and a complete divinity. His divinity is not possessed by any man. His normal humanity sustains all His normal activities in the flesh, while His divinity carries out the work of God Himself. Be it His humanity or divinity, both submit to the will of the heavenly Father. The essence of Christ is the Spirit, that is, the divinity. Therefore, His essence is that of God Himself….” (The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. The Essence of Christ Is Obedience to the Will of the Heavenly Father).

“God become flesh is called Christ, and so the Christ that can give people the truth is called God. There is nothing excessive about this, for He possesses the essence of God, and possesses God’s disposition, and wisdom in His work, that are unattainable by man. Those who call themselves Christ, yet cannot do the work of God, are frauds. Christ is not merely the manifestation of God on earth, but also the particular flesh assumed by God as He carries out and completes His work among man. This flesh cannot be supplanted by just any man, but is a flesh that can adequately bear God’s work on earth, and express the disposition of God, and well represent God, and provide man with life” (The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Only Christ of the Last Days Can Give Man the Way of Eternal Life).

Christ is God’s Spirit realized in the flesh, so the essence of Christ is divinity. Here we must understand that the realization of God’s Spirit in the flesh means the appearance of God in the flesh. The Spirit of God is the Holy Spirit, which is God Himself. God’s essence of life, the disposition of God, God’s possessions and being are all actualized in the flesh. Thus, the life of Christ, the disposition of Christ, and the possessions and being of Christ have come from the actualization of God’s Spirit. Therefore, Christ is the incarnate God Himself. Who can fathom God’s life? The life of God is realized in Christ, so that no matter how man pursues the truth, he can never live out the essence of Christ’s life because Christ is the incarnate God. Man is not God incarnate; he does not have the divine essence at all. How can he live out Christ? This is absolutely impossible. Someone says he wants to emulate Christ and live out Christ. That is because he does not know the essence of Christ and says such arrogant words. Therefore, the statement “live out Christ” is not valid. Christ is the embodiment of the truth. The abundance of Christ is infinite. However, the truth expressed by Christ is finite. It is a very small part of the truth which is expressed according to man’s stature and what man can attain. Compared to the essence of Christ’s life, these truths are like a drop in the ocean. Even if man can live out a little bit of the reality of truth, possess a little bit of the image of Christ, this does not count as really living out Christ. Living out the essence of the life of Christ can never be attained by man. However man pursues the truth, what he can attain is limited. We are always infants before God, so man can never say that when he is alive, he is Christ. The statement “Man can become God if he can live out Christ” is not valid at all! Paul said that he was Christ when he was alive. This was too arrogant and senseless. It was simply inconsistent with the truth. Some people would like to emulate Christ. One cannot say this is wrong. To emulate Christ, one should emulate Christ’s absolute obedience to God, true love for God, carrying out of God’s will, and faithfulness to God unto death. This is praised by God. But no matter how we emulate, it is true that we can never live out Christ, because the essence of Christ’s life is that of God incarnate, it’s not from experience. So one can never live out Christ.

—The movie script of Rapture in Peril

Previous: Question 4: When the incarnate Lord Jesus was resurrected after His crucifixion, He became the life-giving Spirit. And thereby the life-giving Spirit dwells within us, blends with our spirit, and the two spirits will become one. So how could we not become God in the end? How could I be wrong about this?

Next: Question 1: Religious pastors and elders are all people who serve God in the church. It is reasonable to say that, when it comes to the return of the Lord, they should be watching and waiting, and treating it with caution. But why do they not only not seek or investigate the work of Almighty God of the last days, and instead make up rumors, judge and condemn Almighty God, and deceive and restrict believers from investigating the true way?

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Question 2: What’s the difference between God’s work and man’s work? And what’s the essential difference between God incarnate and the people who God uses?

Almighty God says, “The work of God Himself involves the work of all of mankind, and it also represents the work of the entire era. That is to say, God’s own work represents the movement and trend of all of the work of the Holy Spirit, whereas the work of the apostles follows God’s own work and does not lead the era, nor does it represent the working trend of the Holy Spirit in the entire era. They only do the work man ought to do, which does not at all involve the management work. God’s own work is the project within the management work. Man’s work is only the duty of men being used and bears no relation to the management work”

Question 1: The Lord’s promise is that He will come again to take us into the kingdom of heaven, and yet you testify that the Lord has already been incarnated to do the work of judgment in the last days. The Bible clearly prophesies that the Lord will descend with power and great glory on clouds. This is quite different from what you’ve testified, that the Lord has already been incarnated and secretly descended among men.

“And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him.” (Matthew 25:6) “… I come as a thief.” (Revelation 16:15) “Behold, he comes with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.” (Revelation 1:7)

Question 1: In all my years of faith, despite knowing that the Lord Jesus is God’s incarnation, I didn’t understand the truth of the incarnation. If the Lord’s appearance in the second coming is similar to how the Lord Jesus was incarnated as the Son of man to do His work, then we’ll be unable to recognize the Lord Jesus, we’ll be unable to greet the Lord’s coming. I believe that the incarnation is a great mystery. Few are able to truly understand the truth of the incarnation. Please commune with us on this issue, what exactly is the incarnation.

Almighty God says, “The meaning of incarnation is that God appears in the flesh, and He comes to work among man of His creation in the image of a flesh. So, for God to be incarnated, He must first be flesh, flesh with normal humanity; this, at the very least, must be true. In fact, the implication of God’s incarnation is that God lives and works in the flesh, God in His very essence becomes flesh, becomes a man.”

Question 2: Pastors and elders often read the scriptures and preach to people, pray for brothers and sisters, have love for believers and ask people to hold on to the Bible. If we say they are hypocritical Pharisees, most believers will not be able to see through or distinguish. Then please communicate to us in more detail.

Almighty God says, “If your intention is not to submit to Him but you have an ulterior motive, then what you say and do, even the prayers you say to God, your every act, will be viewed as resisting to God. Even if you speak tenderly, act with a mild manner, your actions and expressions appear appropriate to others, and you give an impression that you submit to God, yet judging from your intention and your viewpoint of belief, all you do is against God, and is evil. ”

The Appearance and Work of God On Knowing God The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days On the Pursuit of the Truth Judgment Begins With the House of God Essential Words From Almighty God, Christ of the Last Days Daily Words of God Selections of the Words of Almighty God Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs Guidelines for Spreading the Kingdom Gospel Selections of the Records of the Three Stages of God’s Work God’s Sheep Hear the Voice of God Listen to the Voice of God    Behold the Appearance of God Essential Questions and Answers on the Gospel of the Kingdom Testimonies of Experiences Before the Judgment Seat of Christ (Volume I) Testimonies of Experiences Before the Judgment Seat of Christ (Volume II) How I Turned Back to Almighty God Typical Examples of Punishment for Resisting Almighty God

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