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To: DouglasKC; boatbums; metmom; Mark17; Iscool; delchiante; imardmd1; ealgeone; aMorePerfectUnion; ...
You asked, "Correct me if I'm wrong but you think there is a separate being other then the father and son, a being called "the holy spirit". Is that correct?" Not exactly. Allow me to explain.

The Universe God has created has realms we are not fashioned to sense, in our present body, soul, spirit configuration. These realms exist and are real. Here, I should give you two axioms which benefit my reasoning:

Without Time, events do not occur

Without Space, things do not exist

These axioms are important for anything in the created Universe. God is greater than His creation, BUT He has chosen to also be in His creation, as The Holy Spirit and as Jesus. The dimensional complexity/simplicity of some realms beyond our sensing is not a barrier to God in His creation You will recall Jesus leaving the burial tomb without rolling away the stone and appearing in a locked and shuttered room without opening a window or door. There is also a scene in Daniel chapter 5 where a being not in the same realm as Palace party central reaches into the spacetime of the Babylonian king, to write upon the wall; just the hand is seen, but there was a being with spatial and temporal reality to which the hand was attached ... the being was in the Created Universe but the realm in which the being exists was not sensed by the partiers except where the being intersected the spacetime of the Palace room.

Now to answer your question. God IS greater than His creation, but The Father Almighty has aspects (named Jesus and The Holy Spirit) which/Who interact with the created Universe. These interactions do not diminish God but we sense them as two 'other' personas of The One God, the aspects where The Creator Almighty interacts with His Creation. As a Christian I am saved by the work of one aspect of God (His Holy Spirit interacting with my human spirit) BECAUSE of the work another aspect of the One God (Jesus) has performed on my behalf.

Conversation is enhanced by using the term 'person of' when referring to one or another of the Three Known aspects of The One God. But each does not diminish the Father Almighty as He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and greater than His Created Universe in which we and perhaps a huge variation of living beings exist in realms we were not fashioned to be able to sense.

That said, there is coming soon a moment of transformation, when the corruptible will put on incorruption, the mortal put on immortality, and we shall gather in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air while seven years of God progressively pouring out His wrath upon the Earth which rejected His Grace in Christ. ... BTW, the Universe we sense is so delicately balanced that a change in one parameter or another to a fraction of 1/10120 would end out living spacetime environment! Such a small change would make life as we know it impossible.

126 posted on 02/11/2017 11:22:36 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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To: MHGinTN
Without Time, events do not occur

Time: something that was invented so that everything didn't happen at once.

137 posted on 02/12/2017 3:28:10 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MHGinTN
Without Space, things do not exist

Space: something that was invented so that everything doesn't happen at the same place.

138 posted on 02/12/2017 3:29:03 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MHGinTN

And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Gen 1:2)


139 posted on 02/12/2017 3:32:11 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SubMareener

pingaling


165 posted on 02/13/2017 8:34:52 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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