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When I think of the way I have grown and developed as a Christian, the most significant transformations of who I am have been the result of internalization of people I have loved and admired and who have loved and admired me. In a very real sense I see this internalization as the road to sonship in my life and in the lives I have touched. Sonship of Jesus reflects what so many of you have said in this forum, so intimate a relationship and internalization of YHWH that there was indeed deep merger with the Father. Incarnation of the living, active, creative expression of YHWH. If biological then we have the problem of the DNA and genetic coding that makes Him different. If His sinlessness is the result of superior DNA, in what way was He tempted like we are, yet without sin? And what would obedience mean in a fallen world? Nor would I describe it as metaphor. Metaphor describes an extended simile, and while helpful in stories it describes nothing in personality. Mother used to say ,