Cheryl Schatz

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From Colossians we can understand that anything that has been created has been created by the Word. The Word Himself was not created so He is in the category of Creator and all else is in the category of created.

Then the Word became flesh. The flesh is the Christ. The Word did not cease to be the Word when He became the Christ. He is and always was the Word – God Himself. The flesh, the man Jesus, had a beginning in the womb of Mary, even though He has always existed in the Spirit as the Word.

So how do we see these things as far as the Christ and creation, not just as the Spirit who is the Word? This is stretching me as well. All things were created by the Word. But is it possible that after creation, the resurrected Jesus breathed life into Adam? He, the physical man, is said to have “become” a life-giving spirit. He gives life to the world. If He is the one who gave life to the very first man by breathing life into him, then He would be the origin of life in man.