steelmaker wrote:
JR, when U say there's only ONE Spirit in the Godhead, that's modalism. Scripture repeatedly refers to father, Son, and Holy Spirit separately, while calling each "God". 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.
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. 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.

Again, we see, in Psalm 110, God The Father addressing God The Son. There are TWO Personages here.
Never stated that there's only "one Spirit in the Godhead"....such a statement shows a misunderstanding of what the Godhead actually is, it is God's divinity, or what our humanity is to us, so is the Godhead to God, so for better understanding, we could say it is his "God-anity", or "Godhood", yet commonly called and understood as "divinity", yet the Bible word is his Godhead. Since there is only one of him, it is called "the Godhead", for there is only one who possesses it, and that is God who is the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. What I did say is that God is a Spirit, actually I didn't say that.....Jesus does, there's just no getting around that fact.

Joh 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 

God is the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, so the three are one Spirit, one God, and we must worship "him", not "them" in spirit and in truth. We do not worship members of a group we call "god", but we worship a Spirit in spirit and in truth, having been begotten of God who is our Father, being children of promise which was revealed by God who is the Word spoken by God, being made ourselves the temple of God, who is the Holy Ghost. He is our Father, he is our guarantee, for he cannot lie, and he is our Comforter, assuring us of this guarantee and giving us faith to believe God, to believe the Word of God our Father by the Holy Ghost. The Father begat the Son, the Word was with God in the beginning and is the same God, made a body by which he dwelt among the disciples here in earth, and the Holy Ghost indwells that body, the church. That's what the Scripture states about the three in 1 John, bearing record in heaven being three, but are one in contrast to the three that bear witness in earth, but are not one, but agree in one.


I am not your teacher and only wish to share things with you that you may in turn try them by your own knowledge of the Lord. I really don't know any thing. Still learning and growing in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Praying for you and all men that you would also come to the knowledge of the truth and continue to grow in it. I am a sinner, but I have a hope that God through Jesus Christ our Lord will deliver me from my present situation of being a sinner and deliver me from this vile body and I thank him for this promise of eternal life. This is my faith that I share with all my brethren in the Lord who we patiently wait for. Jesus Christ IS come in the flesh.

Rom 8:22-25  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 
Edited 7 times by JerryRose 08/05/12 8:29 PM.