关于上帝如何定义我以及我在基督里是谁的19节圣经经文

Many of the best-known identity verses describe a group rather than a person: a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, ambassadors. That does not make them less true of any one reader. It means they were written to congregations, and they describe a standing rather than a state of mind. The nineteen verses below start before anybody has done anything, with the image of God in Genesis, then cover what changed and when, the family words, the collective…