“Is there one God or three?”
One, of course.
“Does the Holy Spirit do things without the will of the Father?”
No, of course not. Does that mean we can simply interchange any verse about one with the other? Or with the Son?
If so, then what is the point of God revealing all three to us, and giving us verses specifically about all three? Are you saying God did that for no reason, that He is irrational?
“It’s becoming very obvious to me that you indeed don’t avail yourself of or listen to the guidance of the Holy Spirit when trying to understand scripture.”
You started this conversation off with these baseless, insulting assertions, and you continue with them. Yet, I am the one who doesn’t have the guidance of the Holy Spirit?!? Speck, plank, need I say more?
All three are of the same mind. One God, three persons. What the Holy Spirit is doing is what God the Father is doing through the Spirit. You seem to be trying to separate them which cannot be done.
Saying that I thought you were not listening to the Holy Spirit was not meant to be an insult. I simply took your comments at face value about not needing the Holy Spirit to do "mundane tasks". My point was that if you realized that those tasks are indeed often directed by the Holy Spirit. Everything that happens in our life is for a purpose whether its learning to read or whatever. We are put in this place at this point in history for a reason. It is only through cooperation with the Holy Spirit that we can fully realize what God's purpose for our life is. If He didn't need us to read for that purpose to be realized the opportunity to learn to read would not have been given us.