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To: fso301

The nature of God is defined by the totality of His revelation and not a single verse. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit all are revealed to have all the attributes of God. God is revealed as one God.

To believe in a multitude of gods - like Mormonism or Hinduism is not remotely Christian.


91 posted on 07/04/2014 9:10:44 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
The nature of God is defined by the totality of His revelation and not a single verse. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit all are revealed to have all the attributes of God. God is revealed as one God.

I think biblical evidence of divinity would be prayer and worship. Scriptures indicate the apostles prayed and worshiped both God the Father and Christ the Son. However, I know of no such scripture concerning the Holy Spirit.

Never-the-less, having established in scripture that God and Christ were divine, reconciling monotheism with God and Christ was necessary.

I believe there is a sufficient body of scripture to establish that the apostles understood God and Christ to somehow be one in the same and that there was no conflict with monotheism. However, I don't find where they had a clear understanding of the nature of the Holy Spirit. Was the Holy Spirit a diety, or some sort of force/presence? New Testament writers are not clear on that.

92 posted on 07/04/2014 9:32:59 AM PDT by fso301
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