It is not clear here Doug..Do you believe in the divinity of Christ? Do you believe in the Triune God?
We believe in one God, the Father, eternally existing, who is a Spirit, a personal Being of supreme intelligence, knowledge, love, justice, power and authority. He, through Jesus Christ, is the Creator of the heavens and the earth and all that is in them. He is the Source of life and the One for whom human life exists. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who is the Word and has eternally existed. We believe that He is the Messiah, the Christ, the divine Son of the living God, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born in the human flesh of the virgin Mary. We believe that it is by Him that God created all things and that without Him was not anything made that was made. We believe in the Holy Spirit, as the Spirit of God and of Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit is the power of God and the Spirit of life eternal. Yes, I believe in the divinity of Christ, but not in the "trinity" concept. Although there is such a thing as the holy spirit, it is not a seperate "personage", like God and Christ, as formulated by the Catholic church and later adopted as doctrine by most protestants.
Yes, I believe in the divinity of Christ, but not in the "trinity" concept. Although there is such a thing as the holy spirit, it is not a seperate "personage", like God and Christ, as formulated by the Catholic church and later adopted as doctrine by most protestants.Who or what is the Holy Spirit to you? What do you make of I John 5:7? Galatians speaks about grieving the Holy Spirit, how can we grieve something that is not, to use your word, a "personage"?
-ksen