metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
That in reality doesn't work even by your own words as you refer to your "father" and "mother" using different labels than "I". You are not your mother nor your father even though some of their essence is in you. Nor are you "one life" because, heaven forbid, if one dies, the others don't necessarily do so. Nor is your personality going be exactly the same as theirs because their personalities are assuredly not the same even when compared to each other.I disagree. The life I have is exactly the same life that my mother and father had. The sperm that entered my mother's egg never died. The egg my father fertilized never died. This new body of mine is alive. But the life in this new body of mine is exactly the same life that was in my mother and my father before me. Do you not see that I am in the father and the father is in me? We are one life, occupying many bodies.
Where there was a mix-up in terminology, I believe, is that the apostles probably believed that Jesus was of God but not God, the concept of which would be understood in Jewish terminology but not necessarily with non-Jews who often were polytheistic in upbringing.