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Clay
(From Forerunner Commentary)

John 5:17  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) The implication is, "My Father has been working from the beginning, and He's continuing to work." What is Their work? It is creating, creation. God is the Potter, we are the clay. He is the One doing the shaping, the molding, the creating. "It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves." He is the One who is continuing the creation that He began and revealed in Genesis 1. He is still working on us! Continuing the pottery metaphor, the Holy Spirit, then, can be compared to the water that the potter uses to bring the clay to the right consistency to enable him to shape it. John W. Ritenbaugh Pentecost and the Holy Spirit

2 Corinthians 5:17  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Each Christian is a new lump of clay—being molded and shaped by a Master Potter! We are already physical and mortal, so He must be forming, creating something else in the image of God! God's creative efforts did not end in Genesis 1. He merely reached a stage, a platform, from which springs the most important aspect of the creation. The new creation is the creation of a new order, a Family in His image—and not just physically, but also spiritually. He wants our minds and hearts in His image as well. Ephesians 4:13 says that we to grow to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. John W. Ritenbaugh We Shall Be God! (Part 1)

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