Imitation

Where does God end and man begin?

Researching for a paper on free will vs. determinism I have lots of little questions that have come up. Little things that do not seem to add up and I am trying to understand where, if any, the boundaries of God’s sovereignty are and what that implies to the idea of freedom.

What is freedom anyway?
(do any of my readers—and I know you exist—have any insights to what freedom is? )

Now I am wondering what all this means with the idea of living through Christ. A few ideas in my head at the moment

1 being made in God’s Image

2 imitating Christ

3 the existence of acting (as in plays, Shakespeare etc)

4 God’s power in us (sovereignty)

Add them all together, like me, and it seems that part of the nature of being a Christian is to imitate, almost like acting the character of Christ. You act in full knowledge that it is not you, but in hopes that eventually you will not be able to distinguish yourself from Christ. You are acting just as an actor would in a play. But also God is acting, because he is not a passive abstraction like a character from a play, but a personal live being.

I wonder if this is not what it is like to have Christ dwelling in oneself, but I do not think I will know until I understand better the dance between “freedom” and sovereignty.