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To: ponyespresso
Your #92: First, ... why is it necessary for Jesus to "send" the Spirit when the Spirit is clearly already here?

It shows the relationship between God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, just as the following shows the relationship between God the Father and God the Son, all three of whom are omnipresent.

Acts 3:20-21
20 And he [God the Father] shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

John 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
Proceed forth from the presence of God the Father is what you do when you are sent by Him. You go from heaven to earth to do as you have been commanded.

These are among a multitude of verses that show that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three Persons who are One, having a perfect unity of heart, mind, purpose, thought, action, etc.

94 posted on 06/06/2004 11:10:00 PM PDT by White Mountain (By their fruits ye shall know them.)
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To: White Mountain
These are among a multitude of verses that show that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three Persons who are One, having a perfect unity of heart, mind, purpose, thought, action, etc.

Three Persons who are One is substance as well?

pony

95 posted on 06/07/2004 5:07:27 AM PDT by ponyespresso (simul justus et peccator)
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