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To: Zuriel
Jesus said baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He also said " 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: John 16:7 ¶ Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you."

I never said, God is three persons, What I said was that There were three divine manifestations, Realms if I may, you obviously never read my original post, If you had you wouldn't be putting words in my mouth. Jesus existed before time, "In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the word was God, and the same was also with God." It was clear here that he was both part of God, and coexisted with God.

155 posted on 03/24/2006 5:10:51 AM PST by whispering out loud (the bible is either 100% true, or in it's very nature it is 100% a lie)
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To: whispering out loud

**Jesus said baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.**

'Name' is singular. It is Jesus.

And the apostles, who had their understanding opened by the Lord, baptized in the NAME of JESUS.

The passages in John chapters 14,15, and 16, concerning the infilling of the Holy Ghost, are hard for the natural man to understand.

At one moment, the Lord says: "..but ye know him"(who do they know? the Christ); "for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." The next moment he says: "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.....At that day" (when they are filled with the Holy Ghost) "ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you." John 14:17,18,20


The Holy Ghost is the Holy Ghost of Jesus. It's the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ.." Rom. 8:11

Jesus IS the Holy Ghost.
Jesus said: "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
As Paul told the Colossians, "..Christ in you, the hope of glory".

**What I said was that There were three divine manifestations, Realms if I may**

God (the Everlasting Father; see Is.9:6) WAS manifest in the flesh (the Spirit filled Christ, the Father in him doing the works)
How is the Father manifested to us today? By us being filled with his Spirit.

**It was clear here that he was both part of God, and coexisted with God.**

The word 'coexist' implies separate entities. The scriptures don't teach that God is anything other than a Spirit, made visible to fallen man in a variety of ways, but in these last days by his Son (the Son of God; not God the Son. There is a difference).


156 posted on 03/24/2006 6:57:32 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....nearly 2,000 years and still working today!)
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