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Originally Posted by Raptor
Well, to start, nowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus became the Holy Spirit, and neither did WL say that either...
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Here's where Witness Lee said it:
"Let us now turn to 1 Corinthians 15:45. This verse says, “The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam became
**a life-giving spirit” (Gk.). According to this verse, the last Adam, who is Christ, became a life-giving Spirit. Some twist this verse, saying that it speaks of “
a life-giving Spirit,” not “
the life-giving Spirit.” But besides the Holy Spirit who gives life is there another Spirit who gives life? To say that there are two Spirits giving life is to teach another great heresy. Whether the article is definite or indefinite, the last Adam, who is Christ Himself, became a Spirit, a life-giving Spirit. At this point we must refer to John 6:63, where the Lord says, “It is the Spirit that giveth life” (Gk.). In this chapter the Lord Jesus said that He was the bread of life to give life to people. Eventually, He indicated that in order to be life to people as the bread of life, He must be the Spirit, for it is the Spirit who gives life. Furthermore, 2 Corinthians 3:6 says, “The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” Is not the Spirit in this verse the Holy Spirit? Can we say that besides this Holy Spirit who gives life there is also another Spirit who gives life? No, we dare not say this.
A second way of twisting this verse is to say that the life-giving Spirit here is not the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit of Christ as a person. Those who twist the verse in this manner say that just as we have a spirit, so Christ also has a spirit. Then they proceed to say that the spirit here is the spirit of Christ, not the Holy Spirit. Certainly, the Spirit in this verse is the Spirit of Christ. But do you believe that besides the Holy Spirit there is another Spirit who is the Spirit of Christ? Or, to put the matter another way, do you believe that besides the Spirit of Christ there is another Spirit called the Holy Spirit? If you believe this, your mind must be darkened. No one with an enlightened mind would believe this."
There is no precise quote "Jesus became the Holy Spirit" but the typical winding reasoning of "if the life-giving Spirit Jesus became is something besides the Holy Spirit then that is the heresy of saying there are two Spirits who give life, and you are a meathead if you think that." Thus.....Jesus became nothing other than the Holy Spirit.
From his 1977 book,
What a Heresy—Two Divine Fathers, Two Life-Giving Spirits, and Three Gods! The quote can be found here, in the section "The Heresy of Two Life-Giving Spirits":
https://contendingforthefaith.org/en...#heresyspirits