Live for the one who died; ambassadors of Christ; Spirit of Christ

“For the love of Christ constrains us, having concluded this: that one died for all, therefore all died; and he died for all so that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them.”

If we are all one, and we pray to live for him — making our life solemn by needing to fulfill his will — and we live for Christ, how would he not be God, the one to whom we are indebted and for whom we are eager to live, as the one who died for us and bought us all with his own blood?

“Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were appealing through us; we beg on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God.” Notice: they are ambassadors for Christ, and they say God appeals to us. Then again they say, “We beg on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God.” Therefore Christ is God; when we have been reconciled to him, we have been reconciled to God.

“But in everything we commend ourselves as servants of God.” Those called servants of God are also called servants of Christ; therefore Christ is God.

“For we are the temple of the living God, as God said: I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” If we are temples of the living God because the Spirit dwells in us — and that Spirit is also said to be Christ’s (“for if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him”) — how is Christ not God?

“destroying arguments and every high thing raised against the knowledge of God, and taking captive