Tag: <span>future glory</span>

  Colossians 2:9-10 teaches,  “For in him (Christ),  dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.    ‘ A difficult passage, what does it mean for us? John Gill explains the theology of it: “the manner in which fullness dwells in Christ, is “bodily”; not by power, as in the universe, nor by grace, as in the saints, nor by any glorious emanations of it, as in heaven, nor by gifts, as in the prophets and eminent men of God, nor by signs symbols, and shadows, as in the tabernacle and temple, but, essentially and personally, or by personal union of the divine nature, as subsisting in the Son of God to an human body, chosen and prepared for that purpose. In addition Christ has:  a reasonable human soul; which is the great mystery of godliness, the glory of the Christian religion, and what qualified Christ for, and recommends him…