_John 6:53, 56, 57_—“_Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves .... He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me_”—the believer has life by partaking of Christ in a way that may not inappropriately be compared with Christ’s having life by partaking of the Father. _1 Cor. 10:16, 17_—“_the cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ?_”—here it is intimated that the Lord’s Supper sets forth, in the language of symbol, the soul’s actual participation in the life of Christ; and the margin properly translates the word κοινωνία, not “communion,” but “_participation_.” _Cf._ _1 John 1:3_—“_our fellowship (κοινωνία) is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ._” Foster, Christian Life and Theology, 216—“In _John 6_, the phrases call to mind the ancient form of sacrifice, and the participation therein by the offerer at the sacrificial meal,—as at the Passover.” (_e_) All believers are one in Christ. _John 17:21‐23_—“_that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me. And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are one; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one_”—all believers are one in Christ, to whom they are severally and collectively united, as Christ himself is one with God. (_f_) The believer is made partaker of the divine nature. _2 Pet. 1:4_—“_that through these_ [promises] _ye may become partakers of the divine nature_”—not by having the essence of your humanity changed into the essence of divinity, but by having Christ the divine Savior continually dwelling within, and indissolubly joined to, your human souls. (_g_) The believer is made one spirit with the Lord.