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The letter kills, but the Spirit brings life.

You said it...not me. btw, God is absolutely ONE...to the extent that He might even be defined as one Person.

Can you get me in as a teacher?

It would take eons for me to explain it to you...but once you grasped it you would see it as being very simple indeed. If you really want to understand it, go to the following thread and think about all of the posts posted there by me...I try to make it clear but I think that without the Holy...

It would be appreciated if you would give chapter and verse so those verses can be taken in context...because the immediate context will bear out that they do not contradict each other on a broader scale. Of course...I was being facetious...so where do you want me to get Christian theology if...

We might be wrong on any given issue...which is why we need to always be open to new insights. We ought to seek to be as right as we can possibly be, and we also ought to seek to be certain of what we believe... But if new information comes in that would change our pov...then we need to be...

Trinity vs. Tritheism: Understanding the Trinity.

Can you be more specific (maybe take it to the other thread)?

They don't merge into one...one disseminates into three. And I would use the terminology of both Persons and Person.

I would go so far as to say that there are three Persons who are in effect the same Person. One God. Anyway, I'm not going to derail this thread by hashing it out again here. I think that it has been adequately covered in the thread that I linked everyone to.

I think I do...for you to understand it, you would have to go through a process of thinking about it with certain things in mind... Trinity vs. Tritheism: Understanding the Trinity.

She appears to be doing well.

The diagram suggests three separate beings who are God.

Now that is hilarious! You're saying that we do not get Christian theology from the Bible. Should I start reading COMMENTARIES instead?

edited the post in question.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus per Luke 23:46. See also Romans 8:9.

three Gods. Oh wait, never mind...the arrows between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit say "distinct from" rather than "NOT"...and I actually agree with that. But I would also say that there is a sense in which the Father is the Son is the Holy Ghost...while they are also distinct from each other...

In context, in Hosea 11:1, God's son is referred to as Israel. But the Holy Spirit through Matthew relates God's son as being Jesus as he quotes that scripture in Matthew 2:15. So how is it not taken out of its original context? Who is God's son? Israel or Jesus? According to Hosea 11:1, it...

I'm not sure I understand your question...I told her to do what she wants to do.

You don't want the blessing of the added understanding that you would get from comparing Matthew 5:20 to Galatians 2:21 and Philippians 3:9...I get that. Have it your way...it is your loss, not mine. But I would ask you to consider that there is one Lord (Ephesians 4:5) Jesus Christ (1...