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Originally Posted by Thankful Jane
Dear YP0534,
All of us that embraced Lee's teaching believed that Christ became the Life-giving Spirit. He told us that the LGS (life-giving Spirit) had something new added to it, that is, Christ's resurrected humanity.
So the question then becomes: is the Life-Giving Spirit different from the Holy Spirit?
What say you?
Thankful Jane
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I say I've been on the Internet long enough not to take the bait!
If one were to say they are different, then one surely divides the Trinity too much.
If one were to say they are the same, then the anti-modalists come screaming about heresy.
No, I'll decline to do more than say that I believe what the Bible says in that Christ as the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit and that I believe it was this very same Holy Spirit, and no other, that He breathed into His disciples after His resurrection.
It is not my goal to try to justify the creeds or to comport myself therewith, as I recognize some attempt. I'll leave that to them. It seems rather plain to me the pale fruit of such activities. Moreover, in this discussion, I merely want to emphasize that the grave churchmen of old who invented those things were at least (at the very least) as fallible and subject to error as Lee.
How many life-giving Spirits are there in the universe?
You'll have to say for yourself if you believe in a God of multiple vivifying Spirits simply because it's the opposite of Lee's teaching. I know no such divinity and the musings I've seen thusfar rather substantially fail to measure up to something I could put my confidence in.
I really could care less where this doctrine came from or if it came from anyone in particular. The discussions running counter to it are just really weak and illogical.
That's all I'm really saying. I'm completely open to hearing Lee was wrong about anything, including this point, but what I've heard herein just ain't it. All I've heard is, well, Lee's doctrine doesn't fit the ancient doctrine very well so we'd like to come up with something different that maybe does fit the ancient doctrine better.
Well, go ask a Jesuit and save yourself the time!
Sorry!
