01-03-2012, 06:58 PM
Understood TVB,
We can ponder these things, but to become dogmatic about them is a mistake. In any case, we must never try teach that there is more than 1 God, as if there are two or three individual beings/persons who are God. There is only One who is such revealed to us in Scripture...and He has an only Begotten Son, who took a body and soul from humanity, in order to be our redemption.
Yes Allan, that is what the Creed states...and I ponder the Statement made here, when Jesus said "if i don't go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send Him to you." John 16:7 Also this verse in the same book says that The Father will send Him. John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
We see there that it is the Father who sends The Holy Spirit/The Spirit of Truth/The Spirit of Jesus, in the Name of His Son. And here, Jesus says that He asks The Father to send His Holy Spirit...John 14:16 "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever..." Physically Jesus was leaving them, but His Spirit, The Spirit of Truth, would be sent by The Father in Christ's Name...I believe that The Holy Spirit IS the Spirit of Jesus and His Father, they being ONE SPIRIT.
Notice these two verses below.
Jesus answered him, ?If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and WE will come to him and make our home with him.
Romans 8:9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
You see that? The Holy Spirit IS the Spirit of God, The Father, AND The Spirit of Christ, His Son...They being ONE Spirit...and They dwell IN us, in and by Their Holy Spirit, who dwells within us. There is no female or male deity, in a human sense, but it is ONLY GOD, who IS SPIRIT, who dwells within HIS Temple/People.
Blessings,
Chuck
We can ponder these things, but to become dogmatic about them is a mistake. In any case, we must never try teach that there is more than 1 God, as if there are two or three individual beings/persons who are God. There is only One who is such revealed to us in Scripture...and He has an only Begotten Son, who took a body and soul from humanity, in order to be our redemption.
Yes Allan, that is what the Creed states...and I ponder the Statement made here, when Jesus said "if i don't go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send Him to you." John 16:7 Also this verse in the same book says that The Father will send Him. John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
We see there that it is the Father who sends The Holy Spirit/The Spirit of Truth/The Spirit of Jesus, in the Name of His Son. And here, Jesus says that He asks The Father to send His Holy Spirit...John 14:16 "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever..." Physically Jesus was leaving them, but His Spirit, The Spirit of Truth, would be sent by The Father in Christ's Name...I believe that The Holy Spirit IS the Spirit of Jesus and His Father, they being ONE SPIRIT.
Notice these two verses below.
Jesus answered him, ?If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and WE will come to him and make our home with him.
Romans 8:9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
You see that? The Holy Spirit IS the Spirit of God, The Father, AND The Spirit of Christ, His Son...They being ONE Spirit...and They dwell IN us, in and by Their Holy Spirit, who dwells within us. There is no female or male deity, in a human sense, but it is ONLY GOD, who IS SPIRIT, who dwells within HIS Temple/People.
Blessings,
Chuck