Chapter 33: BP: The Seven Stages of Transformation

​In this chapter, we’ll review the first of four important sevens pertaining to the salvation/exaltation of man, which is the Seven Stages of Transformation or what the Bible refers to being created or re-created.  The New Testament is clear that the object of our existence is to be transformed into the image/likeness/stature of God.  Some believe that just by accepting Yeshua/Jesus as the Savior of Humanity that somehow they will magically reach that blessed state of being like the Messiah. But the scriptures set out a series of transformations to become like God. And as we will see, there are seven of these. The prospect of becoming holy or even divine may surprise or shock some, but when we drill down into the scriptures that is the end message - if we desire it and work for it.

The Process of Perfection
Our Process of Perfection looks like this:

Individual Salvation

Born of the Blood Redemption

Born Again Sanctified Born of the Water > Born of the Spirit > Born of God

Married Exaltation

Going Onto Perfection Exaltation                Becomes Perfected > Reaches the Full Stature of Messiah(proxy-deliverers) > Sees God the Son

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Creation and Re-creation
When we look at the Bible, we see a progression of creations and re-creations to be like God.  In the Garden, we see Adam and Eve come into existence.  Then, because of their desire to be like God, they partake of the fruit of the tree of knowledge and are cast out of the Garden to gain experience with good and evil. Later, in the New Testament, we see Yeshua telling Nicodemus to be Born Again. We see Paul admonish the Hebrews to go beyond the elementary principles of milk - Heb 5 - and when they become of full age to Go Onto Perfection - Heb 6 - reaching the stature of the Messiah and function as proxy saviors. So, we can see this series of stages of transformations to become like God.

Commenting on this process of being created and re-created set out in the Book of Isaiah, Dr. Gileadi wrote,

"Isaiah characterizes the cyclical rebirth of persons who ascend to higher spiritual levels as God’s “creating” or “forming” them each time they ascend. His definition of God’s creation, in other words, is that of re-creation. Even God’s creation of the heavens and the earth are a re-ordering of existing materials: “Who measured out the waters with the hollow of his hand and gauged the heavens by the span of his fingers? Who compiled the earth’s dust by measure, weighing mountains in scales, hills in a balance?” (Isaiah 40:12). People who descend, on the other hand, like those in Isaiah’s Babylon and Perdition categories, are de-created and suffer ruin."

"We observe Isaiah’s ascending order of spiritual levels when God “creates” and “forms” Jacob/Israel “to be my servant” (Isaiah 43:21; 44:21); Zion/Jerusalem “to be a delight and its people a joy” (Isaiah 65:18); God’s sons and daughters—“all who are called by my name, whom I have created, molded, and wrought for my own glory” (Isaiah 43:7); the hosts of heaven, a celestial category of persons whom he calls forth, each one by name (Isaiah 40:26); and God’s end-time servant, whom he “creates” as a “light to the nations, a “covenant of the people,” to “free the captives,” to “restore the Land,” and to “reapportion the desolate estates” (Isaiah 42:6–7; 49:8)."


​The Big Idea
Many biblical commentators ignore the plain and simple concept or explain away statements that the Bible makes about man becoming like God.

Man and woman’s spirit is created in the image and likeness of God – Genesis 1:26,27
The serpent declares that Eve can be like God knowing good and evil – Genesis 3:5
God confirms the serpent’s statement – Genesis 3:22

Biblical commentators say that Adam and Eve made a mistake partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But this flies in the face of two errors of thinking.

God who is perfect makes mistakes.
God who is omniscient didn’t have a foreknowledge of Adam and Eve’s actions.

Individual Consciousness is Eternal
One concept the Bible seems to be silent is the fact that individual consciousness or awareness is eternal. This fact is so self-evident that the Bible doesn’t need to mention it or does not need to confirm it. Moreover, when something is eternal it has always existed in the past and will always exist in the future.

Man's Consciousness is Eternal

<<<< Past                              |                       Present                      |              Future >>>>                                                     (Mortality)

Man’s memory of the past will be restored at the resurrection.
 

Seven Stages of Creation or Re-creation
When we look at the Bible, we see seven stages of creation or re-creation that emerge.​ Beginning from a rudimentary state of self-awareness, God has and can transform us into what He is. 

Eternal Individual Consciousness/Awareness

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Seven Stages of Transformation

A New Creation of Spirit Genesis 1:26,27 V

A New Creation of Material/Physical Genesis 2:7,21-23 V

A New Creation of Mortality (Knowing Good/Evil) Genesis 3 V

A New Creation of Immortality 1 Corinthians 15:22 V

A New Creation of the Holy Spirit Born Again John 3 V

A New Creation of the Son Going Onto Perfection Hebrews 6 V ​Made Like the Son of God Hebrews 7:1-3 Ascends to the Throne of the Son Revelations 3:21

A New Creation of the Father Yeshua ascends to the Throne of the Father Revelations 3:21