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Originally Posted by OBW
The capitalization is not what makes it one way or the other since the underlying text generally has none (at all).
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I never claimed it was. You projected that proposition onto what I posted.
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Whether it is similarly or differently in either place a reference to the essence of the one mentioned coming to/into (or as a fact of being in) the believer or of the Holy Spirit should have no real impact on what it is that is stated in these verses.
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It seems that the essence of the Father and Son and the Holy Spirit is Spirit. [John 4: 24] Otherwise, God would have three different substances? The translation of Greek hypostasis to Latin substantia resulted in Tritheistic heretical conclusions. Do you really want to go there?
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And your question as to why it cannot be the Holy Spirit when the S/spirit of the Father and the Son are mentioned is a kind of strawman because I did not ever say that those cannot be.
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I didn't mean to imply that you were. I am merely trying to define the boundaries of your position via questions. Does that make sense to you?
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This is getting old. for every verse you mention that either could, or does, reference the Holy Spirit, there are others that do not.
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Your thoughts are going circles largely of your own imagining. You went right past my concession to you that "The last Adam became a life-giving essence' seems the best translation I have yet read. You are interpreting every question as an argument when I am actually asking these things because I don't know.
We got off to a bad start because I accused you of equivocation which is what you accused Witness Lee. You then accused me of it. If the word spirit has a different meaning every time it is used depending on the context, then how can we NOT equivocate? As you have charitably granted me at least once, our equivocation may be "unintentional." That has happened and likely will happen again. It seems the best we can do is humbly admit our ignorance of this most important matter. I don't think that spirit can be understood intellectually. Spirit could be defined as that essence of life that cannot be understood intellectually but is present everywhere in everything and nothing.