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Question #1: What is the spiritual meaning of student?

Christ Jesus gave us a terrific model for learning, since he was both a masterful teacher and a willing student, learning directly from God, our divine Teacher. Jesus’ prayers recorded in the New Testament are different from all other prayers in the Bible in at least one aspect.

When Jesus prayed, it was as if God were sitting right next to him. He obviously felt so close to his divine Parent that he used the Aramaic term "Abba," which means pappa or daddy. No one else had ever used that term in the Bible, although once he used it, others did too.

The religious leaders of Christ Jesus’ day addressed God as if He were a distant deity whom they perhaps felt they needed to appease. To them, God was mysterious, and subject to fits of fury. Jesus had a completely different understanding of God, and therefore a completely different relationship with Him/Her. (From now on, we'll refer to God as Him, for sake of brevity. But we always mean God as both Father and Mother.)

Jesus understood that God wants us to know Him, and His plan of unconditional harmony and goodness for man, and all creation. Jesus was eager to learn from such a loving Parent, and trusted the usefulness of what he was learning.

He grasped man's identity as a complete and perfect reflection of God's own perfection. The proof of this is in the healings Jesus performed as God's attentive pupil. Some of the qualities Christ Jesus expressed that enabled him to learn so successfully included: humility, curiosity, self-discipline, unselfishness, integrity and persistence.

The Living Bible:
"... Jesus went up to the Temple and preached openly. The Jewish leaders were surprised when they heard him. ‘How can he know so much, when he's never been to our schools?’ they asked. So Jesus told them, ‘I'm not teaching you my own thoughts, but those of God who sent me. If any of you really determines to do God's will, then you will certainly know whether my teaching is from God, or is merely my own.’"
	John 7:14-17
The Amplified Bible:
"I and the Father are One."
	John 10:30
King James Bible:
"He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand."
	John 3:34,35
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
"Our Master taught spirituality by similitudes and parables. As a divine student he unfolded God to man, illustrating and demonstrating Life and Truth in himself and by his power over the sick and sinning."
	p.117:15-19
"The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity... Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal."
	p.vii:13-20