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Originally Posted by UntoHim
No mixed message my friend. The first paragraph was addressing Boxjobox's Unitarian views which I will not allow to be aired over on the main forum.
The second paragraph is a different subject - I was letting people know that expressing personal views concerning the nature of God/Trinity was perfectly acceptable on a thread about Lee's modalistic teachings.
I hope that clears things up for you.
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Okay, thanks. That is helpful (and not as narrow as I thought).
I read a few verses in Daily Light (and a couple other places) this morning about the Spirit and thought to share them in this thread.
"But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you." "
"The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God"
"If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness."
"The love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us."
"By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit."
"But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you."
(John 16:7; Romans 8:16, 10, 11; 5:5 1 John 4:13)
These are all wonderful verses regarding the indwelling! If we were trying to figure out who of the Godhead is living in us, after reading these verses our answer would have to be "Yes!" That is all three persons of the Godhead are specifically named as living in us. Christ comes to us from/with the Father in the "supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ." (Phil 1:19)
Concerning the first verse above (John 16:7), it is very interesting that Jesus had to go away before He could send the "Advocate." I think we would all agree that Jesus was speaking of the Holy Spirit here, right? So did Jesus have to go away first before the Spirit could come, because the two of them just couldn't be in the same place together at the same time? (seems like something of a silly notion, doesn't it?) Or was it because the One Grain had to fall into the ground to die, to bring something new forth to get into His followers? That is, for the "joy set before Him, He endured the cross" to make something happen - to produce something.
So what is being produced? Look at those verses in Genesis 2 where it says
"The the LORD God built (lit.) a woman from the rib." Adam was a picture of Christ and Eve of the church. Then Adam says,
"This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh . . . because she was taken out of man." Fast forward to Jesus proclaiming,
"I will build my church!" Are you seeing what I'm seeing?
Whoa - what hath God wrought!?!?!
Let's see if there ain't some good pipe-smokin' over that . . .