Three gods or one god?
One God, three Persons.
Let's look at His Image, marriage.
Two flesh or one flesh?
One flesh, two persons. Their name? Smith. But there is John Smith, and Jane Smith.It is quite correct to say that Jane is a Smith, or John is a Smith, but it's quite jarring and fundamentally inaccurate to say that Jane is Smith.
And that's what is happening in the OP.
The Holy Spirit Is Yahweh
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by SavedByGrace, Dec 8, 2021.
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It is very clear that Jesus Christ is called Yahweh, Jesus Christ IS The Yahweh of The Old Testament
and the Holy Spirit, as in the OP, is also Yahweh
How do you account for this?
Elohim, which is plural, is the One God, and Three distinct Persons, Who are each Yahweh. -
One Name, three Persons. Can we say, the Son is wholly and one hundred percent Father, Son and Holy Ghost, without being inaccurate and sounding like a fool?
So it is with the Name, Yahweh. One Name, three Persons. (I should interrupt and say that we only see this when we shine the light of the NT on it.) To say that the Spirit is Yahweh is the same as saying the Spirit is Father, Son and Holy Ghost. -
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Trying to maintain your own salvation by doing the right works and thinking just the right thoughts, is laborious, tedious, exhausting, and quite impossible. Jesus gives us rest. -
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Our understandings of God are revealed in the manners by which we speak of Him, and we can adopt the manners of the Biblical authors, and understand how God is revealed thereby, or we can force our notions into it with jarring and unnatural usage. The Bible reveals a dynamic, living and loving relationship between the Persons of the godhead. There is submission, and giving. And there is the elevation of the will of One over the independent and separate, yet holy and righteous will of the other. And that submission is rewarded with the yielding of the power and authority of one to the other, and the giving of a Name which is above all names.
The language you employ robs God of all those qualities revealed by the manner in which He is described by the Biblical authors, and reveal a notion of God that is static, cold and dry. And you threaten dissent with eternal damnation.
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