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Originally Posted by OBW

And what does that mean? Are you positive that because someone printing a Bible that capitalized "Spirit" that God has not sent forth the essence of his Son into your hearts? Or even if it is accurately the Holy Spirit, does it deny a life-giving aspect of the Son without reference to the Holy Spirit? He who has the Son has life. There is no reference to the Holy Spirit in that one — unless you have insisted upon an overlay that requires it. But the scripture has not said that the Holy Spirit is the exclusive giver of life.

Whether the words are capitalized or not is insignificant. Compare Matthew 10:20 "For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." and Galatians 4:6 "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." Why, according to your theology, can't the Spirit of the Son and the Spirit of the Father be the Holy Spirit? On the other hand, I find the translation "the last Adam became a life-giving essence" true and without controversy and related to John 12:24 which also suggests that Jesus must be transfigured to become life-giving.