No, that is not what Colossians 2:9 states.
You and I can not claim that we were and/or are God's own personal residence, as to say that God is exactly at home with us, because we were once strangers and we were homeless orphans and without a job, until the true HEIR came and called us into his Father's residence. To the Son it would be and forever was God's own personal residence. We were homeless orphans who were called from the streets friend, to be called into adoption and then and only then, were we called God's people as we entered his residence through his Christ's invitation. The way you are interpreting it is, as if the residence belonged to you all along and that you were never a stranger to that residence.
Seriously, we are not gate crashers are we, that is, we don't break into people's homes unless they invite us in as guests, right?
Unlike Christ we are only guests and can quite easily be kicked out, but the Son will never be kicked out as God's own personal residence.
Here is a gate crasher for you, as an example......
I could use the same kind of imagery. We are the body of Christ. God put Adam into a deep sleep [Christ's death], and made Eve for him, bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh.
My argument is not to say we will be absolutely the same as Christ, or even the same as each other, because as Paul put it, each star differs one from another. And it would only be fitting that Christ should receive more glory, and joy, then anyone. Yet, we cannot forget, nor deny Jesus is the only begotten. And was in the Father, the word made flesh, and that sure does make him different then any other. But even that does not make him the God, for even angels are made different, so, different does not make one the God.
Therefore Christ is the Heir and also God the Father's own personal and exact home, for this is the proper contextual meaning of Katoikeo (2730). We can not make this claim as you have done, so please consider the context and term definition, in relation to the antecedent who is Christ the SEED of PROMISE. So that the Christ is God's home right down to the finest and exact details.
2730 katoikéō (from
2596 /katá, "
down, according to," intensifying
3611/oikéō, "dwell, reside") – properly, settle
down as a permanent resident, i.e. in a
fixed (
permanent) dwelling
place as one's personal residence; (figuratively) "to be exactly at home."
[The force of the prefix (
2596 /katá) suggests "
down to the finest, exact details."]
Fullness represents the sum total of the pronoun who is the Godhead, the Godhead being the Father. No one, I mean, not you and neither I or even all the believers together for that matter, can claim that they are the sum total of the Godhead, for this would be blasphemy. The antecedent in Colossians 2:9, who is the Son alone, is the sum total of God the Father.
Cognate: 4138 plḗrōma – "
sum total, fulness, even (super) abundance" (
BAGD).
See 4130 (
plēthō).
The embodiment of the fullness of the Godhead is within the definition of pleroma, that is the sum total of what and who God the Father is in all his intrinsic essential qualities, where the Son alone is the Father's own permanent residence eternally. The Son wasn't born to be the own personal residence of God the Father, he always was eternally his residence, unless offcourse you are suggesting that at one time God was homeless.
4985 sōmatikṓs (an adverb, derived from
4984/sōmatikós which is an adjective derived from
4983/sṓma, "body") –
bodily (used only in Col 2:9). It refers to "Christ's
complete embodiment of the
plērōma ('fullness of God')
Col 2:9 is referring to after his resurrection, for one. And it says that the fullness of God is
contained in a body. God is
contained,
housed. All I could suggest, is dwell on this, God
contained in a body.
Yes, Jesus is the rightful heir, he is the only begotten, for he was the word of God that came down from heaven, and was wonderfully made. We were made from the earth. But, it was the Father in Christ, the Father's Spirit, not another God, nor another person. It's the Father's Spirit that is in Christ, and the Father takes Jesus Spirit, and puts it in us, but it is the same Spirit, one Spirit, which is the Father's Spirit. The Father works in all.
Ephesians 4:6(KJV)
One God and Father of all, who is
above all, and
through all, and
in you all.
1 Corinthians 15:45 first Adam
into a soul, last Adam
into a Spirit life giving.
Christ never gave up his wisdom which is linked to his righteousness, rather he temporality took a leave of absense from his greatest office of authority on the Father's throne, by....
humbling himself and by becoming obedient to death-- even death on a cross! (Philippians 2:8)
In essence he came not as the almighty judge of the Old Testament as the Angel of Yahweh's presence (epiphany of Christ), rather he came to serve. There is a vast contrast from his role when he rained down fire on Sodom and Gommorah as compared to the servant form that he took upon himself as the man Jesus of Nazareth.
So, God the Son forgot? If he did, that is a lowering.
Christ is the head of us, this speaks of authority, we are to obey him. The head of Christ is God, this speaks of authority, Christ is to obey God. As Jesus said, my God, and your God, his Father, and your Father. And we are to obey our parents, and certainly obey God. So, Jesus must obey his God and Father.
You may never know the "what", unless you know the "who" (Son) and only then can you see the Father through the Son's intrinsic qualities which are the sum total of the Father's being/nature.
First the Father has to reveal the Son, then the Son will reveal the true God and Father.
2 Corinthians 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.