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Who ARE "the prophets" in Ephesians 2:20?
Warranted its own topic. This will be a bit of a sketchpad for anyone that wants to participate.
I certainly don't have all the answers on this. Been discussing it for years.
Even the Greek Scholar Bible translators don't understand it. And relegate it to the discernment of the reader.
Discernment of course, is a difficult thing to measure in any tangible way.
Basically we understand the Trinitarian doctrine of God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
But the Bible uses the word Spirit/spirit in many ways. And even Spirit is not used consistently.
Worse than that, we are presented with MANY spirits/Spirits.
Do we assume the Spirit of God is the Holy Spirit, or something else? Many questions arise.
For now I want to focus on the Spirit of Christ. There again, is this the same as the Holy Spirit, or something else.
And to be clear, I am not proposing additional members be added to the Trinity. Just trying to get a handle on this.
I'll pick up where I left off in the other topic, the Spirit of Christ.
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Here are a few obvious ones. I will start from there and work it out.
Romans 8:9 NIV
You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh
but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.
And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
1 Peter 1:11 NIV
trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them
was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow.
Philippians 1:19 NIV
for I know that through your prayers and God’s provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ
what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.[a]
Acts 16:7 NIV
When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia,
but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.
I saw a few more promising inroads. But I will begin by digesting this.
Context of Rom.8:9
Romans 8:9-11 NIV
You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh
but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.
And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death
because of sin, the Spirit gives life[a] because of righteousness.
11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you,
he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your
mortal bodies because of[b] his Spirit who lives in you.
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Who ARE "the prophets" in Ephesians 2:20?
Warranted its own topic. This will be a bit of a sketchpad for anyone that wants to participate.
I certainly don't have all the answers on this. Been discussing it for years.
Even the Greek Scholar Bible translators don't understand it. And relegate it to the discernment of the reader.
Discernment of course, is a difficult thing to measure in any tangible way.
Basically we understand the Trinitarian doctrine of God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
But the Bible uses the word Spirit/spirit in many ways. And even Spirit is not used consistently.
Worse than that, we are presented with MANY spirits/Spirits.
Do we assume the Spirit of God is the Holy Spirit, or something else? Many questions arise.
For now I want to focus on the Spirit of Christ. There again, is this the same as the Holy Spirit, or something else.
And to be clear, I am not proposing additional members be added to the Trinity. Just trying to get a handle on this.
I'll pick up where I left off in the other topic, the Spirit of Christ.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here are a few obvious ones. I will start from there and work it out.
Romans 8:9 NIV
You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh
but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.
And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
1 Peter 1:11 NIV
trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them
was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow.
Philippians 1:19 NIV
for I know that through your prayers and God’s provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ
what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.[a]
Acts 16:7 NIV
When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia,
but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.
I saw a few more promising inroads. But I will begin by digesting this.
Context of Rom.8:9
Romans 8:9-11 NIV
You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh
but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.
And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death
because of sin, the Spirit gives life[a] because of righteousness.
11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you,
he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your
mortal bodies because of[b] his Spirit who lives in you.
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