@Johann If one is confused about spiritual experience then something is missing for God who is a Spirit opens up all His truths in man by the same Spirit of mind that He is. That isn’t my claim, it is Gods claim that He will give you His life to live. If that is confusing then something is missing in your knowledge of.
First, if you do not believe that God came to Jesus and opened in that man all of His heaven, in that man then just man up and confess that you do not believe that and stop trying to edit and rewrite what it says. Jesus didn’t even know God nor His heaven until it came to him by the Spirit that God is. truth is you don’t believe what you read and make your own gospel according to your own understanding instead of Gods understanding.
And everyone who is of God is begotten of Him, which simply means born of, and Jesus was very clear after his renewing of mind by God to be renewed, born again of God, was very clear that ye must be born again of God with that same renewing of mind that he received from God. You don’t believe what you read, that is very obvious.
And you are correct, one cannot duplicate the Christ either you have accepted Gods anointing, Christ, which is His state of mind, knowledge, which would be Christ in you, it is something we become, it is the gift of God to be His anointed ones. All that you are doing is separating yourself from that same anointing, refusing to be that person of Christ that God deans of you if you are to be in His same image that He creates man to be and only God can perform in man.
If you do not believe gen 3;22 then just admit that you do not believe Gen 3;22 instead of making up all these excuses why you are not like to know this same difference that Adams learned in knowledge, Abraham learned in knowledge, Moses learned, Mary learned Jesus learned, 120 learned. All of this became like GHod to know this same difference and they all walked as He walks in His same light of mind did they not? And all today who has received that same knowledge do the same. But evidently His ways is not for you by all these excuses you make up to deny to be yourself in His same image.
All of this changed in the twinkling of an eye, a new heaven and earth was opened in all of these. Obviously you are trying to grow yourself into a concept from mans opinions instead of receiving from God the same gift of knowledge that all of these received from Him.
As for your take on 2 For, If one has received Gods anointing, which would be Christ in you, same anointing that all of these received from God, you also would become exactly as He is anointed of His same mind. Let this same mind be in you who was in Christ Jesus, for he also was anointed of Gpod starting in Matt 3:16 and not before, before he was of the law and taught those laws of man for a god as rabbi. After Matt 3:16 those same laws he once taught are the very ones that had him crucified for blaspheme, a liar. You are putting Gods anointing locked up in a iron cage of religiosity instead of receiving the gift for all that you have to do is open that gift and all of heaven would be open in your the same as it was in all of these we read of. Why you deny to do so is your own pride that you have all the answers and do not need from God nor His input. There is a way to access Him and get direction from Him instead of what someone says about Him from their own beliefs.
As far as a new heaven and earth open, there is only one way that can happen and it is through the whole of the Bible. By My Spirit says the Lord. and that is what is missing in your doctrine is God Himself opening a new heaven and earth in your, for obviously you Arte stuck in mans religious ideas for a god instead of healing from God Himself without mans input.
And God teaches that salvation is to receive from God Himself His same Spirit of mind and walk in it as He walks in it.
You edit the Bible to justify your self explanation
And as gnostics teachings that God is a Spirit and man is the place of it, is evil for you just as you stated it is. Jesus taught the same thing rad it in Luke 17:20-21 from Jesus himself where God resides that you count as gnostic evil.
As far as the cross, it is the place where the flesh man in carnality is laid to rest, a man as a god dies, and the spirit, mind, of that man is risen and comes to us all who will die that same carnal death and come to life in that same Spirit that was released from that man. You are very elementary in spiritual knowledge.
I blame God child through birth, born again just as Jesus did in Matt 3;16, and said you must do the same if you are to be born of Gods Spirit. What you do is listen to man instead and only try to adopt yourself into His kingdom instead of being born of His Spirit. Bu tit isn’t to late to be.
Test your revelation of Spirit and see if you are like Him and in His same image that is not flesh but is Spirit. Seek ye first His kingdom and not your own ideas for a god. where is His kingdom, See Jesus in Luke 17;20-21, it is very clear where it is. Your ego to be right is keeping from the truth in it. You seek the sensational instead of the simplicity of Spirit that God puts into man Himself.