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08/02/12 7:27 PM
Hi Steel
when U say there's only ONE Spirit in the Godhead, that's modalism.
Scripture refers to God as one Spirit. God is Spirit, not Spirits, as many.
Scripture repeatedly refers to father, Son, and Holy Spirit separately, while calling each "God".
The terms God the Father, God the Son or God the Holy Spirit do not, I believe appear in scripture.
The Godhead mystery might refer to a separation but God is one as the “I Am”, not the “We Are”
There's just no getting around that FACT. While Scripture shows the heirarchy of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, they are all God to us, and are to be worshipped as such.
Its not getting around the facts but more of trying to define the facts.
Again, I don't know anything about the HOLY TRINITY besides what SCRIPTURE declares, but I DO know those Scriptures quite well. And I believe some misunderstanding occurs when we try to place the HT on human level.
I would agree we cannot use human terms to define God,God is Spirit and not a man (creation) as us. The term Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us, not God is us.
There's no doubt that there are three distinct Personages, co-existing in the same Godhead, each omniscient and holy, each performing differing functions while in perfect agreement.
Yes, perfect agreement,perfect submission as the work of one perfect will. And although it’s the peace that surpasses understanding that peace is not attributed to the Father as greater portion than the peace that is attributed to Son. Together the Father and Son working together in perfect submission to one another as a mutual work of faith, is the picture I see. Scripture refers to that work of faith, as one faith, the faith of God.
Someone a while back suggested the use of the terms Father and Son as attributes of God. When looking at the name Jesus which means “Jehovah is Savior” I believe it could represent the various attributes of God working together as one, and while I am not saying that solves the mystery I personally have not found another way as of yet of explaining the peace of God that surpasses all understanding, as the one God who guards our hearts and minds, by faith.
Again, we see, in Psalm 110, God The Father addressing God The Son. There are TWO Personages here.
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Psalm 110:1
Psalms 110:1 seems to be indicating the same kind of communion (The LORD said unto my Lord )in regard to the language found in the new testament by which He rested in, after the finished mutual work, who when finished sat down at the right hand of the Lord and returned to His previous glory, as the I Am, which I believe is reflected in John 17:4
Mark 14:36And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
We, I believe can see the Lord Jesus speaking to the Lord represented by the term Father, as one Lord, one faith, one will.
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