The fifth argument—In John 8:23, it is written: ‘Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.’ And, indeed, God alone is from above.
Rebuttal—There is no distinctiveness in Christ on account of this. Every virtuous and righteous person who is oblivious to the world is from above. And the people from below are those who seek the world and the people of the world and wrongdoers. See John 15:19—‘If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world’, and John 17:14—‘because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.’