We can start with John 16:27-28 and John 15:26.
These scriptures say that Jesus came out from God and that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father.
I believe that Jesus is the Father; but not in the sense of Him who inhabiteth eternity. Jesus is a distinct Person from that Omnipresent Spirit; while He is the same Spirit.
First thanks for the reply. second, John 16:27 & 28, "For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that
I came out from God.
John 16:28 "I came
forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
STOP, how can an co-equal person who is eternal come out from another person who suppose to be co-equal also, and is diffrent
where is there three persons here? only ONE. yes, Jesus is the FATHER, correct, but the question remains, what, or better yet "WHO" proceeded from the Father/Spirit. not another distinct person, here's why. the word "proceed" means to emanate. and if Jesus emanated from the Spirit/Father, meaning his ownself, and is separate and distinct from his ownself, then one have TWO Spirit. see person(s) don't eninate. listen to the definition Emanate, (of something
abstract but
perceptible) issue or spread out from (a source). see the Lord Jesus is the "OBJECTIVE" of the Spirit that you cannot see, or none-perceptible, or that which is the "Subjective", or source. for God is one Spirit, and if Jesus is a person of that Spirit then it's the same "PERSON" manifested. remember G243 allos states a "Numerical diffrence", or another which is the SAME "source". so by eninating from the source he is the IMAGE of the "SOURCE" that is perceptible ... meaning he is the "IMAGE" of the Source.
let us make it simple. if 101G took a picture, the image on the picture is not justbyfaith. do you see it now. the IMAGE refect, or manifest the SOURCE, in this case the Image of 101G is 101G..
so how is Jesus the Express Image of the Spirit that is the Source? answer, by "sharing" equally as Philippians 2:6 STATES, "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God". well God has no EQUAL. Isaiah 40:25 "To whom then will ye liken me, or shall
I be equal? saith the Holy One". God has no equal, notice "I" single PERSON. that also eliminated any Co-Equal error.
now, also you said, "
Jesus is a distinct Person from that Omnipresent Spirit; while He is the same Spirit". you almost got it. not a distinct person, but the "SHARED" person of himself in flesh.
Now, your John 15:26 proves my point, listen, John 15:26 "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which
proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me"
now we ask you, proceedeth here means to emanate, and eminate means abstract, which the Comforter is. but
perceptible? NO.
you cannot see him. are you getting this? listen the Comforter proceedeth from the Father, right, but did not the Lord Jesus said that he proceedeth also from the Father. are you getting it now?. did you not hear what the Lord Jesus said?, John 14:16 "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;(look up ANOTHER here).
John 14:17 "[Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it
seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 14:18 "I will not leave you comfortless:
I will come to you".
Jesus said "I", "I", "I", will come to you. here it's audience relevance, and he said that he was going to "
Manifest" ... HIMSELF to them, so when did he "Manifested" himself.... anser on the day of Pentecost. bingo, only one person .... "Shared".
so no, there is not three persons in any of these verses, but one Spirit shared in flesh.