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To: Judith Anne; Alex Murphy
I don’t know about that, Alex. I mean, there’s like one benediction that Paul wrote that uses “Father Son and Holy Spirit,” and that’s all I’ve ever read in his letters. If you have something else, I’d love to read it. I’m not joking, or being snarky at all. I just don’t see where St. Paul believed in the Trinity, or any explanation or discussion by him about it.

Romans 8, I Corinthians 12, and Galatians 5.

1,197 posted on 04/24/2010 2:03:29 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Romans 8: Paul uses the term Spirit of God and Spirit of Christ interchangeably, but as a force of the Father or Jesus, and not as a separate person of the Trinity.

1 Corinthians 12: Paul still uses the term ‘Spirit of God’ to preface the remainder of the verses that he speaks about the Spirit.

Galatians 5: Paul does use the term Spirit as a standalone, yet never indicates that the Spirit is God, rather, the verses indicate what he said in Corinthians and Romans - that the Spirit is a mechanism of Jesus and/or God the Father.

No Trinitarian verses in Paul, I’m afraid.


1,226 posted on 04/24/2010 4:59:54 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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