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Originally Posted by aron
There was no need for the Holy Spirit to "become" something it had not already been, all along. So my question here is: what precedence, if any, does Paul reference in his supposed revelation of Jesus becoming the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 15? Or is WL's logic (sorry, 'revelation') all we have to guide us here?  |
I don't know. But the seven spirits of God just seem to confound 15:45 all the more. Paul's pneumatology is confounding enough. But add Johns' seven spirits of God to the consideration and my brain becomes completely overloaded.
I would perchance understand 15:45 better if Paul had said, "the last Adam became a life-giving ectoplasm." But alas, ectoplasm wasn't coined until the 19th century, and wasn't use for spirit until the early 20th c. So Paul, writing in Greek, used the word available to him, which was pneuma, or breath.
So, in the end, the last Adam became a life-giving breath.
Does that help anything? better than adding 7 spirits, pneumas, or breaths of God?
Can't God be as many spirits as He wants to be? as well as a life-giving spirit too?
And our little brains just can't understand such numinous matters.