Now that is why I like you Billy, sometimes you ask good questions.
What is the purpose of a "root"? Is it not to nourish and preserve the plant. Isn't it by the Root that the plant lives? If you want to kill a plant, you don't cut off the branches, that will often time result in a greater plant.
No, if you want to kill a plant, you destroy the "root".
Now please open you mind here and see the analogy? Jesus died and was buried. If He were the Root, and the Root was destroyed, then there are no more branches. But He wasn't the Root as a Man, He was a Branch which was nourished by the Root. When they killed the Branch, it didn't kill the Root, it did just the opposite, it made the plant even greater than it was before.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall
many be made righteous.
Obedience to what Billy? Is it not the "Word's which proceed from the mouth of God?
John 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
17 If any man will
do his will,
he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God,
or whether I speak of myself.
"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by Every Word Which Proceeds from the Mouth of God".
He wasn't the Root, He
lived by the Root. As He said. Did Jesus, as a Man, live by "Every Word of God"?
This is why He said:
Matt. 5:
17 Think not that I am come to destroy
the law, or the prophets (
Every Word of God) I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Of course He didn't, this is the Holy Root that nourished HIM, why would He destroy that which nourished Him?.
Rom. 11:
16 For if the firstfruit (Jesus the risen, the first Human ever given immortality)
be holy,
the lump (Jesus the Man)
is also
holy: and if the root ( that which nourished the firstfruit)
be holy, so
are the branches. (Everyone who is nourished by the SAME ROOT.)
Rom. 3:
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit
is there of circumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed
the oracles of God. (Holy Root Jesus LIVED by)
3 For what if some did not believe? shall
their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let (Every Word of) God be true, but
every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Please consider these Word's Billy.
Heb. 5:
7 Who in the days of
his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications
with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and
was heard in that he feared;
But this isn't what Decon and his buddies teach. No, they are eternally saved already and already immortal. But the Man Jesus, my Lord, wasn't so high minded was He.
did He seek comfort in Himself, Since you teach He was the Root? Or did He seek unto Him which was already established, already existed?
8 Though he were a Son,
yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; Obedience to what? Himself? Or a "Root" that already existed?
9 And
being made perfect, (By what, Himself, or the Word's of God already spoken?) he became the
author of eternal salvation unto
all them that obey him;
10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
11 Of whom we have many things to say,
and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time
ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which
be the first principles of the oracles of God ( The Holy Root) and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth milk
is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age,
even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Grafted into the "Tree of Life" nourished by the Holy Root.
Now you asked the question and I gave you my heartfelt, honest answer. Please return the Love and address the questions I asked?