Father,
Son,
Holy, Spirit - Personification - God's Mind - Mind of
Christ:Holy
Spirit is a personification of God's Mind. A holy spirit is
having the mind of God. God is pure or the Holy Spirit. That
is, He is not flesh and bones and blood. He has no "parts"
which are not Spirit. Therefore, He is undiluted or Holy
Spirit or Mind. When His Spirit manifests itself both Hebrew
and Greek use the "wind" to represent the invisible
expression of God as it works in the physical dimension.
Num. 23:19 God is NOT
a man, that he should lie;
neither the son of
man, that he should repent:
hath he said, and
shall he not do it?
or hath he spoken,
and shall he not make it good?
John 4:24 God is a SPIRIT: and they that worship
him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Luke 24:38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and
why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I
myself: handle me, and see;
For a SPIRIT
hath not FLESH and bones, as ye see me
have.
Acts.17.25.God.Not.Worshipped.Mens.Hands.html
The body returns to the dust and the spirit returns to God
Who gave it. The body of Jesus of Nazareth did not see
corruption but was taken into the spiritual realm.
The Spirit OF Christ is the Spirit which belongs to
Christ. It is the Mind of Christ and not
another God person.
When Jesus died, was resurrected and ascended back to God
Who gave the spirit, He received the PROMISE of the Holy
Spirit. Thereafter, the Holy Spirit is Jesus of
Nazareth. Spirit is the mental disposition of a person
and never a person other than those who live in the Spirit
realm.
Jesus Christ the Righteous, as the "another" Comforter as
Holy (wholly) Spirit promised that in that state, He would
guide the apostles into all truth. To qualify Paul as
an apostle Christ the Lord both appeared and spoke to Paul.
He would also guide Paul into all truth: He would appear to
Paul as requested.
Peter defines the written "memory" as the eye-- and ear--
witness of the risen Christ which was not subject to private
interpretation or "further expounding." That would repudiate
the Power of Jesus Christ as Holy Spirit to guide them into
all truth. That supplies us all that pertains to life
and Godliness.
As the letters are sent out "The Holy Spirit" is minimized
and the ONE GOD THE FATHER and One Jesus Christ the man as
the only mediator between man and God.
I have collected many of the references in the epistles
which apply to all who are NOT prophets or apostles. Because
Christ HAS guided the apostles into all truth He does not
guide us. Thereafter, the "Spirit" OF Christ or the
Mind of Christ is barely mentioned because:
Acts 2:34 For David is not
ascended into the heavens:
but he saith
himself, The LORD said unto my Lord,
Sit thou on my right
hand,
Acts 2:35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know
assuredly,
that God hath
made that same Jesus, whom ye have
crucified,
both Lord and
Christ.
See that even as the "another" Comforter or different state
Jesus of Nazareth is promised in John 14, the mutual
indwelling is Father-Son abides with the obedient, the
obedient abide in Father-Son at the same time.
Father Son Holy Spirit Trinitay collection of passages.
See the Personified Spirit Part One
See The Fruit of
the Spirit as the Fruit of Christ.
See The
Tritheism Dogma.....Max Lucado and Rubel Shelly
He who
searcheth the Spirit: Who groans?
See the overwhelming
evidence that God or Full Deity is made known to us as
"Father" and "Son." Paul speaks of the Spirit OF the Son
and the Spirit of the Father. There is only ONE Spirit.
Question: Is the Holy Spirit a third member of the
"god family" or is this a power or force or mental
disposition of God Who is pure or Holy Spirit.
Rubel Shelly: In both Greek and English,
"Spirit" is a neuter noun. And we think of a neuter noun as an "it"
rather than a he or she. Thus we think of the Holy Trinity of orthodox theology in a peculiar way.
God the Father we visualize in warm, personal terms.
God the Word (i.e., Logos) we more
often speak of as God the Son and think of personal
images ranging from Bethlehem to Nazareth to Jerusalem.
Not so, however,
with the Holy Spirit.
Both the neuter noun and the biblical images of
fire and anointing tend us away from personal
to impersonal
imagery,
from Spirit as divine personality to Spirit as divine
emanation. How
unfortunate.
In the Gospel of John,
Jesus invites us to know about, expect, and experience the
Holy Spirit. And he speaks of the third member of the divine
family in
terms that are personal. In fact, he challenged his
original followers to think of the Holy Spirit in the same personal ways
they had experienced him.
"Holy" is not the first
name of a third member of the God family. Holy means PURE
or undiluted. Therefore only GOD is pure, undiluted, holy
SPIRIT with no visible features. Only when God is Lord or
works in the realm of mankind do we hear of the Face,
Arms, Hand or Back of God. God rides on the wings of the
Holy Spirit or wind but the Holy Spirit is not a bird.
If God is 100% Spirit
and the Holy Spirit is 100% Spirit then the Holy Spirit is
God. Before Christ "laid aside" His majesty and Glory as
100% God He was 100% Spirit. Thus, Paul speaks of the
spirit OF Christ, the Spirit OF God and the spirit of
mankind in conflect with flesh.
Therefore, when the Holy
Spirit is identified as HE then Scripture is speaking of
the Lord Who is the Holy Spirit and not a third member of
the "God family."
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty. 2Co.3:17
But we all, with
open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the
Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2Co.3:18
The pagan triad of Gods
is swept away when we understand that when the Holy Spirit
is spoken of as a being doing things, the problem
evaporates if we know that the NAME of the Holy Spirit is
Jesus, Joshua or Jehovah- Saved Who is "son" of the Father
Who is Jehovah- Righted. (Zech 6)
http://responses.scripturaltruths.com/jesus/wisdom/
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
IS NOW IN HIS POST-RESURRECTION SPIRITUAL STATE
Acts 10:14 But Peter
said, Not so, Lord;
for
I
have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
Acts 10:15 And the voice spake unto him again the second
time,
What God hath
cleansed, that call not thou common.
Acts 10:16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was
received up again into heaven.
Acts 10:17 Now while Peter doubted in himself what this
vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men
which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for
Simon’s house, and stood before the gate,
Acts 10:18 And called, and asked whether Simon, which
was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.
Acts 10:19 While Peter thought on the vision,
the Spirit
said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
Acts 10:20 Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go
with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.
When the Spirit
Lord appeared and spoke to Paul His name was Jesus
Acts 22:8 And I
answered,
Who art thou,
Lord? And he said unto me,
I am
Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
Jesus of Nazareth was born of a virgin, the SEED of
Abraham: He did not exist before He existed. Christ
took on the form of a man to die on the cross. He died, was
resurrected, was transfigured or changed. He did and
does exist in the same state we will be in after we are
resurrected. After Jesus received the promise of the
holy spirit form HE returned at Pentecost and made Himself
known by fire and tongues, John says that the
"another" or in a different form Comforter bears the name
"Jesus Christ the Righteous: there is only one Paraclete.
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Acts 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and
knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him,
that of the fruit of
his loins, according to the flesh,
he would raise up
Christ to sit on his throne;
Acts 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection
of Christ,
that his soul
was not left in hell,
neither his flesh
did see corruption. 1Corinthians 15:53
For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and this mortal must
put on immortality.
1Corinthians 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put
on incorruption,
and this mortal shall
have put on immortality,
then shall be brought
to pass the saying that is written,
Death is swallowed up
in victory.
Acts 2:32 This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we all are witnesses.
Acts 2:33 Therefore (Jesus) being by the right hand of
God exalted,
and having received of
the Father
the promise of the
Holy Ghost,
HE (Jesus)
hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
1Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy
sting?
O grave, where is thy victory?
1Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin;
and the strength of sin is the law.
1Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God,
which giveth us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus was given the OFFICE of th Holy Spirit:
Epagg-elia
, hē,
A. command,
summons, Plb.9.38.2.[Example:
For
why was it, do you suppose, men of
Sparta,
that your ancestors, when Xerxes
sent an ambassador to
your town]
b. announcement, notice
3. offer, promise, profession,
undertaking, D.21.14; “
tas
huperbolas
tōn
e.”
Arist.EN1164a29,
cf.
2. as law-term,
e.
(sc.
dokimasias)
summons to attend a
dokimasia
tōn
rhētorōn
Mark 16:6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek
Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen;
he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
Jesus as Holy Spirit has the SOLE role
in Church
doki^m-a^sia
1. of magistrates after election, to see if they
fulfil the legal requirements of legitimacy, full citizenship,
“
tōn
hiereōn”
Pl.Lg.759d;
4. d.
tōn
rhētorōn
a judicial
process to determine the right
of a man to speak in the ekklēsia
5. examination
of recruits, PLond.3.982.6
(iv A. D.).
Acts 2:34 For David is not ascended into the
heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my
Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Acts 2:35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know
assuredly,
that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have
crucified,
both Lord and
Christ. 1Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren,
be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
always abounding in the work of the
Lord,
forasmuch as ye know that your
labour
is not in vain in the Lord.
When the Spirit Lord appeared to Paul He said "I am Jelsus
of Nazareth." There is NO OTHER name.
Why Jesus Spoke in Parables:
You have heard the old
story that parables make the teaching of Jesus easier for
us farmers? Well, not quite! Christ's clear words were hidden inside parables and other figures of speech.
Parables are spiritual because they are figurative mind exercises.
When asked why He spoke
in parables which no one could understand unless He
explained, Jesus said that it was to keep the insincere
from seeing and hearing Him. The secret was in that old Bible all along just as
clear as the nose on your face!
Jesus explained by
quoting Isaiah:
Therefore speak I to
them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they
understand. Matthew 13:13
And in them is
fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing
ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see,
and shall not perceive: Matthew 13:14
For this peoples
heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of
hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at
any time they should see with their eyes, and hear
with their ears, and should understand with their
heart, and should be converted, and I should heal
them. Matthew 13:15
When Isaiah saw God:
Then said I, Woe is me
for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst
of a people
of
unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the
Lord of hosts. Isaiah 6:5
Isaiah's job was to
warn those who did not love the truth:
Also I heard the voice
of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go
for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. Isaiah 6:8
And he said, Go, and
tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but
perceive not. Isaiah 6:9
Make the heart of this
people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest
they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Isaiah 6:10
In a similar passage in
Isaiah chapter 29, these people with be the magicians who
believe that they are priests able to bring you into the
presence of God:
And thou shalt be
brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be
low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one
that hath a familiar spirit (h178 = empty wineskin), out of the ground, and
thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. Isaiah 29:4
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers
(committing adultery) shall be like small dust, and
the multitude of the terrible (tyrants) ones shall be as chaff
that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. Isaiah 29:5
For the Lord hath
poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. Isaiah
29:10
And the vision of
all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to
one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and
he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: Isaiah 29:11
J.H.Garrison: "There
is God and Jesus: all the rest is opinion."
Rubel Shelly: "There are seven facts about Jesus:
all the rest is muddled apostolic opinion."
Eyes are closed and we are forced to go to the
bookstore.
As music intruded into
the civil worship of Israel only after the elders demanded
that Samuel "set a king over us," modern music never
intrudes until the church abandons itself to destruction
and insists that you set a king over us. Thereafter, the
magical, mystical claim to lead you into the presence of
God is identified by Henry Banford Parkes as "the world's
oldest profession" and his kingship will flounder if the
music is allowed to cease - instrumental or A Cappella
(meaning "after the Catholic church:)
Wherefore the Lord
said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have
removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward
me is taught
by
the precept of men: Isaiah 29:13
Therefore, behold, I
will proceed to do a marvellous work among this
people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the
wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Isaiah 29:14
Nagash (h5066) naw-gash'; a
prim. root; to be or come (causat. bring) near (for
any purpose); euphem. to lie with a woman; as an enemy, to attack;
relig. to worship; causat. to present; fig. to adduce an argument; by reversal, to stand
back: - (make to) approach (nigh), bring (forth,
hither, near), (cause to) come (hither, near, nigh),
give place, go hard (up), (be, draw, go) near (nigh), offer, overtake,
present, put, stand.
The Spirit of Christ (1 Pet 1:11) prophesied in
the Old Testament that, in Person, Jesus (Jehovah-Saved)
would not call great assemblies which are rarely "noble." The multitude was really a class of people who were just borne along
with the great crowds or by "winds of doctrine" --
whatever is new and improved.
The word multitude is
from the Greek echo meaning: "to be diseased, followers or tremblers."
Just parrots! To protect His Holy Spirit Word from the
rabble:
All these things spake
Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake
he not unto them: Matthew 13:34
That it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I
will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things
which have been kept secret from the foundation
(conception) of the world. Matthew.13:35
When did God begin speaking this
language? Jesus said, "From the foundation of the world." The first written account
was by Moses.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of
old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 2 Pet 3:5
Peter then said that
with God "one day is as a thousand years." (3:8) That is, in a
non-parable or literal sense, time is not part of God's
life. The number 10 is abstract completeness. 1,000 is
completeness of Divinity. The rabbis taught that "the days
of the Messiah are a thousand years." That is, whatever
time it takes.
In 3:9 Peter said that
God doesn't count the way we count. He also said that Paul
used the same kind of language (3:16) which has to be
wrestled with to grasp. The unstable (wandering stars or asteroids) "torture the
word on a rack" and get themselves spiritually wrecked.
Therefore, When God
manifests Himself as Father, Son and Spirit we are not
to be fooled that God is three persons.
Tertullian, the "Father" of
the Catholic Trinity idea, denies that God is three separate persons.
Rather, a Holy Spirit was a personification of God's Mind
speaking His internal Word. Tertullian was the inventor of the
word trinity or trias. However, consistent with the early
church writers, he understood that to call the third
person a person meant personae or mask or mode of being. These personae
were the personification of God's Word and Wisdom which
were internal to the One God:
> "For God is rational (spiritual), and Reason was first in Him; and so
all things were from Himself. This Reason is His own Thought (or Consciousness) which
the Greeks call logos, by which term we also designate Word or Discourse and therefore it is now
usual with our people, owing to the mere simple
interpretation of the term, to say that the Word was in the beginning
with God;
although it would be more suitable to regard Reason as the more ancient;
because God had not Word from the beginning, but He had
Reason even before the beginning;
because also Word itself consists of Reason, which it
thus proves to have been the prior existence as being
its own substance.... He became also the Son of God, and
was begotten when He proceeded forth from Him (Tertullian from chs. 5,7).
> "Again--Some will say, What does the expression
Holy Spirit mean?
Well, in scripture
it stands first for God the Holy Spirit,
and secondly for the holy mind or spirit of a believer-
-for illustration,
take Peter's words to Ananias, "Why has Satan tempted
you to lie to the Holy Spirit; you have not lied to
men, but to God," (the Holy Spirit.) And the
Saviour says, How much more will your heavenly Father
give A holy spirit (as it
should be translated) to those that ask him.
Again--Praying in A holy
spirit.
Again--Paul says he approved himself God's servant "by
knowledge, by long sufferings, by kindness, by A
holy spirit'" by A
mind
innocent of the love of gain, or commerce, or
sensuality. Walter Scott Early Restoration
Movement leader.
It is important to establish that the
concept of a Holy Spirit exists at both a Spiritual and a
human level. The book
of Jubilees defines a "spirit."
Jubilee 1:20 Thee. Let
thy mercy, O Lord, be lifted up upon Thy people, and
create in them
........... an upright spirit, and
........... let not the spirit of Beliar
........... rule over them to accuse them before Thee, and to
ensnare them
Jubilee 1: 21 from all
the paths of righteousness, so that they may perish from
before Thy face. But they are Thy people and Thy
inheritance, which thou hast delivered with thy great power from the hands of the
Egyptians:
........... create in them a clean heart and a holy spirit, and let them not
be ensnared in
Jubilee 1: 22 their
sins from henceforth until eternity.'
And the Lord said
unto Moses: 'I know their contrariness and their
thoughts and their stiffneckedness, and they will not be
obedient till they confess
Jubilee 1: 23 their own sin and the sin of their
fathers. And after this they will turn to Me in all uprightness and
with all (their) heart and with all (their) soul, and
> I will circumcise the foreskin of their heart and the foreskin of the
heart of their seed,
> and I will create in them A holy spirit,
> and I will cleanse them so that they shall not
turn away from Me from that day unto eternity.
Jubilee 1: 24 And
their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and they will fulfil My
Jubilee 1: 25
commandments, and I will be their Father and they shall
be My children.
And they all shall be called children of the
living God,
and every
angel
and every
spirit
shall know, yea, they shall know that these are My
children,
.......and that I am their Father
in uprightness and righteousness, and that
This is exactly the meaning of David:
David wanted A holy spirit and not a third member of the
God "family" living inside of:
Hide thy face from my
sins, and blot
out
all mine iniquities. Psa 51:9
........... Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew A right spirit within me. Psa 51:10
........... Cast me not away from thy
presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Psa 51:11
........... Restore unto me the joy of thy
salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Psa 51:12
...........
........... Then
will
I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall
be converted unto thee. Psa 51:13
To say "God's Spirit" is to say God.
As Paul's body fought with his innermost being, God has
within Himself three natures:
Whither shall I go
from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee
from thy presence? Psalm 139:7
If I ascend up into
heaven, thou art there: if I make my
bed in hell, behold, thou art there. Psalm 139:8
If I
take the wings of the morning, and dwell
in the uttermost parts of the sea; Psalm 139:
... Even there shall thy hand
lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. Psalm
139:10
God, Who is not flesh and bones and
blood, does not procreate but creates. When His invisible
power is manifested in manipulating His physical world
that power is His Mind expressing Itself. This Spirit
in Hebrew does not speak of a separate person:
Ruwach (h7307) roo'-akh,
roo'-akh; from 7306 (anticipate, perceive, quick
understanding); wind; by resemblance breath, i. e. a
sensible (or even violent exhalation; figurative life, anger,
unsubstantiality; by extens. a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit .. of a rational being including
its expression and functions
Therefore, when the Psalmist could not
escape God's Spirit he could not escape God's mental presence as it expressed itself to him. When he could not escape God's
physical manifestation for or against hime, he understood
that it was God's right hand. Paul recognized that the invisible or
"unknown" God was the One he preached. He did not need to
be manipulated by singing, dancing and playing musical
instruments to be aroused. He was "in the midst" of two or
three recognizing His invisible, Spirit presence:
God that made the world and
all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in
temples made with hands; Acts 17:24
Neither is
worshipped with mens hands, as though he needed any
thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; Acts 17:25
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for
to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before appointed, and the bounds
of their habitation; Acts 17:26
That they should
seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him,
and find him, though he be not far from every
one of us: Acts 17:27
When Stephen spoke to the Father he
said, "Lord Jesus." When the Spirit presence spoke to Paul
and continued to lead him, the presence identified Himself
as "Jesus whom thou persecutest."
Therefore, the Spirit is personified
with the use of personal pronouns but not because He is a
Person separated from full Deity. Rather, as my spirit
groans within me and argues with me (Romans 7-8), God's
invisible Spirit is personified because it belongs to Him.
Furthermore, this is a common way of "humanizing" even
inanimate objects:
Paul Tillich
"The
Spirit is sometimes personified in the Bible, as in John
16:7-8, and this has led many to believe that it is a
person. They do so because they do not take into account
an idiom of the original Greek language. In Greek,
inanimate objects which in English would be couched in
the neuter
gender,
are given a masculine or feminine gender, if those objects are
identified with any particular individual. ' For
example, a chair is described as "it" in English,
because it is neuter, being neither masculine nor
feminine.
But in Greek that
chair can be identified with its owner. If it belongs
to me, the chair is described as he; if it belongs to my
wife, as she. Click Here.
"This God is never
called a person. The word person was never applied to God in the
Middle ages. The reason for this is that the three
members of the Godhead were called personae (faces or
countenances): The Father is persona, the Son is persona, and the Spirit is persona.
Persona here means a special
characteristic of the divine ground, expressing
itself in an independent hypostasis.
Thus, we can say
that it was the nineteenth century which made God into
a person,
with the result that the greatness of the
classical idea of God was destroyed by this way of
speaking...
but to speak of
God as a person would have been heretical for the Middle Ages;
it would have been to them a Unitarian heresy, because it would
have conflicted with the statement that God has
three personae, three expressions of his being. (Tillich, Paul, A
History of Christian Thought, p. 190)
Wisdom is defined in
much the same way as the Word. Wisdom is Sophia in
Greek and her daughter and co-Logos is ZOE. This is
why Sophia and ZOE are intimately connected with the
notion of a personal Spirit. Wisdom is a "she" as
"Spirit" is a "he" but as "God has His Word and His
Wisdom with Him" we cannot believe that they are
separated persons:
Wisdom crieth
without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Pr.1:20
...........
WISDOM
hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her
seven pillars: Pr.9:1
"To our discussion
of the Word we may here add the passage, "By the word of the Lord were the
heavens rounded, and all the power of them
by the breath
of
His mouth." Some refer this to the Saviour
and the Holy Spirit. The passage, however, does not
necessarily imply any more than that the heavens
were founded by the reason (logos) of God,
as when we say
that a house is built by the plan (logos) of
the architect, or a ship by the plan (logos) of the shipbuilder.
In the same way
the heavens were founded (made solid) by the Word
of God, for they are of a more divine substance,
which on this account is called solid; it has
little fluidity for the most part, nor is it
easily melted like other parts of the world, and
specially the lower parts. On account of this
difference the heavens are said in a special
manner to be constituted by the Word of God.
"The saying then stands,
first, "In the beginning was the Logos; "we are to place that
full in our view; but the testimonies we cited from
the Proverbs
...........
led us to place wisdom first, and
...........
to think of
wisdom as
preceding the Word which announces her.
"We must observe,
then, that the Logos is in the beginning, that is, in wisdom,
always. Its being in wisdom, which is called the
beginning, does not prevent it from being with God
and from
being
God,
and it is not simply with God, but
is in the beginning, in wisdom, with God. Origin speaks of
personae
Consistent with this, in Romans eight
(the key proof-text for three gods) Paul did not speak of
"The Holy Spirit" but the "Spirit of God" or the "Spirit
of Christ."
The spirit of a man knows the thoughts of
the man but the spirit is not a second "person" of the
man. In the same way, the Spirit or Mind of Christ knows
the thoughts of full Deity embodied in Jesus Christ. A
holy spirit is our having the Holy Spirit or Mind of God.
Therefore, a Holy Spirit is a personification of God's
Mind. This Holy Spirit will not ever delude us into doing
something Christ in Person would not do.
The "Spirit Father" gave Himself to
become the "Indwelled Son." He will give Himself Again in
pure or Holy Spirit form:
And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with
you for ever; John 14:16
Even the Spirit of
truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth
him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he
dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. John 14:17
I will not leave
you comfortless: I will come to you. John 14:18
In making promises to the apostles,
Jesus said that the Comforter will come because I have many
other things to teach you. This was through Jesus Christ again working within His
Spirit, invisible nature.
Nevertheless I tell
you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away:
for if I go not away, the Comforter (Christ in 14:18) will not come unto you;
but if I depart, I will send him unto you. John 16:7
And when he is come, he will reprove
the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of
judgment: John 16:8
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear
them now. John 16:12
God would not be speaking through the
VISIBLE Jesus but through the invisible Spirit Who is
Christ. God's greatest gifts have been selected men who
are empowered by God to Speak spirit to Spirit with God.
Only in the SPIRIT does God speak truly spiritual
mysteries.
The Bible consistently shows that our
minds can control our spirit. Our mind is our power to
think and manipulate things. Our spirit is the mental
disposition of our mind:
And did not he make
one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That
he might seek a godly seed. Therefore (you) take heed to
your spirit, and let none deal
treacherously against the wife of his youth. Malachi
2:15
In Greek, because the spirit of the man belonged to
the man, it would be called a "he." Yet, the
man's spirit was not a separate person.
Jesus guarded against contradicting
Himself by making His Spirit another
Person rather than another
Comforter. This "Spirit of
truth" will not be a ghost
or a person who has the power to speak a single word from
His own Spirit. The Spirit will not glorify a "Holy Spirit
Person." The Spirit of Truth is the Spirit which is Truth.
In human terms my "spirit" glorifies me.
My mental disposition and power of creativity which comes
from my mind gives glory to me the "person." The
miraculous power of Christ through His Spirit working
through the Apostle-Prophets doing what Jesus Christ said
would be done validated Jesus Christ as God Incarnate. He
was and is what He claimed to be. The word glorify means
to honor or worship. Therefore, the Spirit of Christ shows
the worth of Jesus Christ. That is, the Spirit worships
the visible Son of God.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all
truth: for he
shall
not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you
things to come. John 16:13
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. John 16:14
Here the Holy
Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. Therefore, as our
spirits or minds speak for us the Holy Spirit speaks
through the Mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2).
Jesus said that His Words were "spirit
and life" (John 6:63). When He spoke He "breathed" holy
Spirit upon the apostles through teaching them the Word.
When the Spirit of this truth came he would not be another
person. He doesn't even have
any words to speak.
Therefore, the only words you are ever going to get from
the Holy Spirit will come from the Mind of Lord Jesus
Christ.
By analogy, if people honor human mind
or intellect and tell others about it while ignoring the
"person" and diminishing his worth, they insult the
person. To grieve the Spirit of God is to ignore the Words
of God. To grieve our spirit you ignore our words. This is
not "a mystery" better felt than told.
"For this reason, the
Holy Spirit has frequently been personified in Scripture, identifying
it with God, and so it is personified as he.
"However, if the
Holy Spirit were actually a person it should be rendered as he in every place where the word is
referred to; but it is not. It is sometimes rendered in the neuter. In Romans 8:16, Paul
writes: "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit." The
neuter, itself is used, and this is in
accord with the Greek text, as any Greek scholar will
acknowledge.
"To personify inanimate
objects
is normal in Scripture. Wisdom is represented as a woman (Proverbs 9:1), mammon is described as a friend (Luke 16:9), sin is
personified as a slave-owner (Romans 6:16), the Holy
Spirit as a comforter (John 14:26), expressing
the spirit of Truth. So Micah declared: "I am full of
power by the spirit of the Lord" (Ch. 3:8). The prophets
were moved by the spirit to record
the Scriptures (Nehemiah 9:20; 2 Peter 1:21), and God
used the same means to speak to Israel through His Son
(Hebrews 1: 1). For the rest of the quote Click Here.
For the prophecy
came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men
of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2 Pet 1:21
Searching what, or
what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did
signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings
of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 1 Pet
1:11
"Personification.-- This is a figure of
speech by which inanimate beings are spoken of as animated, or endowed with life and volition; animals are endowed with
feelings akin to those of men.
"This is well suited
to an imaginary condition of mind, and therefore
frequently employed in Hebrew Scriptures. Indeed, it
is now a staple in the market of communication, and we
use it so commonly ourselves that whe have almost
ceasted to speak of it as a figure of speech." (Prof.
D. R. Dungan, Hermeneutics, p. 324, Gospel Light Publishing)
Some examples of personification are:
And he saw that there was no man, and
wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. Isaiah
59:16
In the beginning was God's power of
thought. The power was with God and the power was God. It
would never do to call Mother earth a "he." Yet when we
speak of her we do not prove that mother earth is a
person:
And it came to pass,
as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that
the ground clave asunder that was under them: Numbers
16:31
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up,
and their houses, and all the men that appertained
unto Korah, and all their goods. Numbers 16:32
As far as we know, the sea does not have
eyes and the power to get so fearful that it runs away.
Yet,
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
Psalm 114:3
........... The mountains skipped like
rams,
and the little
hills
like lambs. Psalm 114:4
...........
........... What
ailed
thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan,
...........
...........
that thou wast driven back? Psalm 114:5
Many of the musical passages in the Old
Testament speak of the "earth" singing or the trees
singing. The land truly rejoices and obeys God's laws when
men are destroyed and scattered away:
The whole earth is at
rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. Isaiah 14:7
Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars
of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
Isaiah 14:8
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the
water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. Habakkuk 3:10
The sun and moon
stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine
arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering
spear. Habakkuk 3:11
Take therefore no
thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:34
Making the Godhead into three separated
persons or members of the "God family" and one only
because they are made of the same God stuff
leaves Father and Son somewhere else while the Holy Spirit
as the "person" competent and fitted for the church age
rules our lives.
This diminishes Father-Son-Spirit by
denying that Lord Jesus Christ in His fleshly form or
image is full Deity's expression of itself to mankind. And
Christ, in Whom dwelled full Deity, is denied the role He
prophesied when He said that "I will come to you" as the
"another" Comforter.
An apostrophe turns from the real and
speaks of an imaginary thing. For instance:
O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet?
put up
thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. Jeremiah 47:6
How can it be quiet,
seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against
the sea shore? there hath he appointed it. Jeremiah
47:7
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are
sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy
children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her
wings, and ye would not Luke 13:34
Theophanies
A theophany is God making Himself
visible or know to the human eye. God inhabits the whole
universe and is not therefore limited. However, mankind
inhabit only physical time and space. When God wants to
instruct selected people He reveals Himself in human form
or in symbols.
"God appeared to
Abraham in a vision, as a smoking furnace and burning lamp, and as a man (Genesis 15:1; 15:17;
18:1-33). In this last instance, God and two angels appeared in the form of three men (18:2) and ate food
provided by Abraham. The two angels left to go to Sodom
while God
remained to talk to Abraham (Genesis 18:22; 19:1).
God appeared to Jacob
in a dream and as a man (Genesis 28:12-16;
32:24-32). On the latter occasion Jacob wrestled with the man and
proclaimed, "I have seen God face to face." The Bible
also describes this appearance as "the angel" (Hosea 12:4). God
appeared to Moses in a cloud of glory and in fire on Mount Sinai, spoke to
him face to face in the Tabernacle, and revealed to him
His back (partial glory), but not His face (all His
glory) (Exodus 24:12-18; 33:9-11; 33:18-23). These
references to God's face and God's glory probably are metaphoric of the presence of God and
could apply to many different types of manifestations.
"God manifested
Himself in the sight of all Israel through thunder, lightnings, a cloud, a voice of a trumpet, smoke, fire, and earthquakes (Exodus 19:11-19;
Deuteronomy 5:4-5, 22-27). He also showed His glory and
sent fire from His presence in the
sight of all Israel (Leviticus 9:23-24; 10:1-2).
"Job saw God in a whirlwind (Job 38:1; 42:5). David K.
Bernard, J.D.
We honor all views of the Godhead by
denying that they are three, separate Beings able to stand
"side by side and face to face to hold conferences." We
should seek a holy spirit by conforming our lives to the
revealed Word or Spirit of Christ.
To see that Holy Spirit is a
personification of God's Mind, and that the Mind of Christ
is the Holy Spirit see First Corinthians, chapter two.
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