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To: DouglasKC; All
Interesting exposition there...you cite John 14:23...and you emphasize the latter part of the verse, as it if was a complete revelation about who God is Person-wise... 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him."

and you cite v. 17 about the Holy Spirit...too...including this last portion: "for He DWELLS WITH you and will be in you."

What? Are we supposed to simply acknowledge but otherwise ignore the "indwelling part about the Holy Spirit" in v. 17?

Don't you see what you're doing?

I could pull the same type of stunt you're doing...Here, let me show you:

In his letters to the Corinthians, Paul ONLY talks about the Holy Spirit and God being entempled in us:

"16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?" (1 Cor. 3:16)
* "For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” (2 Cor. 6:16)

Why, per this fancy-dancy verse extraction process we're learnin' from DouglasKC, that must mean that since Paul didn't include "Jesus" as being entempled, that ONLY the Holy Spirit and "God" is.

You see the problem with this kind of uncharitable-cherry-verses-left-on-the-branch ways is that it's tantamount to citing 1 Cor. 3:16 & 2 Cor. 6:16 and conclude that's the entirety of what God said about a subject...and yet what did Paul say in...
Colossians 1:27?: ...Christ in you, the hope of glory.

The Holy Spirit indwells us (John 14:16-17; 1 Cor. 3:16);
Jesus indwells us (Col. 1:27; John 14:23; John 17:26) -- as He promised to be with us thru the end of the age (Matt. 28:20)
The Father indwells us (John 14:23; John 17:26; cf. 2 Cor. 6:16)

477 posted on 01/15/2014 1:51:00 PM PST by Colofornian (The Spirit HIMSELF [not itself] testifies w/our spirit...we ARE [not will be] GodÂ’s children Rom8:1)
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To: Colofornian
What? Are we supposed to simply acknowledge but otherwise ignore the "indwelling part about the Holy Spirit" in v. 17?

No, you're supposed to stop inventing 3 people where there are clearly 2.

The father and the son are the two. The holy spirit is not a third person. It's the indwelling spirit of the father and the son.

485 posted on 01/15/2014 2:31:13 PM PST by DouglasKC
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