Re: 1 Cor. 15:45 - what does it really mean?
Hi Curious,
Welcome.
The best answer you are going to get regarding 1 Corinthians 15:45 is to ask the HOLY SPIRIT Himself. He might lead you to google the question if you simply cannot get a clear understanding.
Now for my thoughts:
I hope you are very clear the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are ONE GOD yet have different functions. I know I got the revelation from an example used in the LC back in the day: water comes in 3 forms, liquid, ice and vapor. It is still water...but their functions are different.
In the last several years, I have studied the -function- of God the Holy Spirit, Who is the Life Giving Spirit of Jesus and the Father. Jesus is GOD and we read in Isaiah 9:6 the Son is the Mighty God and the Everlasting Father.
When Jesus walked on the earth, while He taught His followers, healed the sick, performed various kinds of miracles, revealing Himself to them, He could not live inside them. While He is on the THRONE, His Presence is here with us and His Persona, through His Spirit lives in us.
In my experience I sometimes am empowered. His Presence on me is sometimes very strong, thus Jesus through His Spirit is giving me Newness of Life, thus the Lord Jesus, Who is empowering me is the Life Giving Spirit in me.
IMO, Lee confused people instead of pointing people to Christ. He did not want us to think for ourselves much less study the Word for ourselves.
Christian history does not teach us the Word of God, it only explains how religious institutions came into existence.
Only in the KJ is there a clear scripture describing the Trinity. It is 1 John 5:7:
For there are Three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the WORD and the Holy Spirit and these Three are ONE.
The following verse is very interesting too.
And there are Three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit, the Water and the Blood. And these Three agree IN ONE.
Blessings,
Carol G
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Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
(Luke 21:36)
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