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If we see our spirits as empty vessels (like the lamps in the parable of the 10 virgins)...and God's Spirit as what is able to fill our spirits with His Spirit (as in getting FILLED with the Spirit)...then we will understand that we need oil from God's Spirit to be a light in the world. This is...

That Yahweh was Jesus. He knew Moses face to face. Now compare that with Yahweh...the Most High Yahweh.... In the same chapter (Exodus 33) we have 2 separate references to Yahweh...both Son And Father (the plural Elohim) "And the Lord (Yahweh the Son) spoke to Moses face to face, as a man...

The truth is more nuanced than even that. Who created the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Not the devil. God is the Creator of all things. We chose to live in a world OUTSIDE of eternal life....in the temporal world. Who created the temporal realm? God did. God created the possibility...

We are indeed body soul and spirit. However our spirit is within our soul. The duality is that we are either influenced from within our spirits...or outside through our flesh. Good and evil are a duality not a trinity.

Do you consider Paul as being apostolic? Notice what he says... "For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God." Do you consider the spirit of a man as a separate person? Or do you agree with Paul...

Exactly! :) But no Jew EVER believed that God's Spirit is a separate person. But they can't explain the duality expressed in ELOHIM. However, many Jews did end believing in Christ in the early days. There are principalities and powers that want to stop us become one corporate New Man.I see the...

Amen. Do you know what is meant by the filioque". The Trinity doctrine does not bring unity but rather division. So which "apostolic" tradition (of men) is right? Is the Spirit sent by the Father only or by the Father AND the Son? Now whichever one you choose you are anathematized by the...

That's fine. As long as you don't worship a spirit other than the One that is the Father's in Jesus name...it's fine. It's when people call on the spirit and try to control it that there is danger. We can't separate God's Spirit from God and try speaking to it as a separate person. That's when...

In Genesis it says..the Spirit of God hovered over the waters. The New Testament tells us that the Son created with the Father. The Elohim in Hebrew is a duality...not a trinity. The "im" always makes two. If there are more than two then the number is given. Other examples of two in the plural...

This is about language. Most languages use masculine and feminine determinates in their nouns. For instance in Hebrew...wisdom is a "she". In French a house and a table are feminine. As in..the house SHE is very pretty. Or...the table SHE is empty. A good translation eliminates the gender in...

There is One Spirit, one baptism...etc... God is One. (Father and Son) (it even rhymes) :)

Yes. God works by His Spirit. God is Spirit. Jesus also is referred to as a Spirit...a life giving Spirit. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ is not His. So how many spirits does that make? Answer: One. :)

The Spirit speaking is God speaking to us. Jesus is in the Father and the Father is in Jesus. They are One Spirit. We are invited into the fellowship of the Spirit. Jesus says...My Father and I will come live in him.. “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words...

God's grace gives us the power over sin. I'll make a little analogy to show what I mean. Imagine you have driven a motorcycle all your life. Then someone gives you a car. Now you drive the car and never get back on the bike. Because you now have a car you can reckon yourself dead as a biker...

To rest in a position is a psychological construct that may indeed have some merit...but it has nothing to do with Christ. A fat person can "visualize" themselves as a thin person...and psychologically that can have some effect on losing weight. But to be dead to sin means we no longer...

If you exchange your "positional" argument with "make believe" you will see that salvation is conditional. Also, your scheme denies the power of the cross to neutralize the old man through the power of grace. There is no position to rest in. That is to rest in a make-believe religious ideology...

A New Testament church is a gathering of people who have God in their midst. Anything less than God moving among the brethren is a fellowship, not a church. Without the presence of God actively guiding the flock, we must be careful to not esteem ourselves as being more than we are. God builds...

This is a mystery...how both Father and Son share one Holy Spirit. God is One. But one what? God is One Holy Spirit. God IS Spirit. Does that mean that the Holy Spirit is a separate person? Of course not. There is no Trinity....there is a Godhead (Elohim) of both Father and Son. That's it...

From a curious question comes a curious answer... :) There is no difference. Is see a problem with your view of the Trinity. I see this is an older post but here goes anyway.. ;) There is an assumption among many that unless one holds to the Roman view of God being a trinity...then a person...

Old Testament holiness is NOT the same as New Testament holiness. To think so is a big error among the Messianics of our time. Look at this verse. "For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness." Heb...