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Originally Posted by Gospelicious
Let me ask..
If Christ is God (John 1: 1) but not the Holy Spirit, then who is the Holy Spirit? Is he God, too?
If the Holy Spirit is God, but not Christ, yet Christ is God, then does that mean that there are TWO Gods?
And if the Father is God, yet Jesus is not the Father, how then can Jesus be God, except the TWO of them are Gods?
And if the Holy Spirit is God, but is neither the Father (who is God) nor the Son (who is God), then would not that make THREE Gods?
But if there is only ONE God, then what are the other two? And WHICH ONE of them is God?
Or...(drumroll please)...are all three the same God?
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So, are there three Gods, OBW, or is there only one God?
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Now let me ask.
If an angel of the Lord told Philip to go down the south road, in Acts 8:26, and the Spirit told Philip in Acts 8:29 to run up to a certain chariot, was that Spirit the Holy Spirit? Because the angel is holy, and it is a ministering spirit. Or are there two separate holy spirits, the first of which (v 26) handed off to the second (v 29)? And if the Angel of v 26 is the Holy Spirit of v 29, then what is the Holy Spirit that prevented them from going in Acts 16:6? Is an angel a spirit of Jesus, or a spirit of something else (16:7)? Is the spirit of just men made perfect (Heb 12:23) the same as "His angel" of Acts 12:15 and Matthew 18:10?
The problem with systematic theology, especially espoused by confident amateurs, is that it quickly leads to absurdity. Or else one simply must ignore verses that don't help one's theology, or just waves them away. No, the writer of Acts 8 wasn't clear on theological matters. Nor was the writer of John's Apocalypse, with 7 spirits (!!) nor was...
If the Centurion in Luke 7:8 was "also a man under authority" and Jesus was the Father God made flesh, then whose authority was the Father under? Because if he wasn't under someone surely Jesus would have corrected the Centurion for improper theology! On the contrary, he saluted it. So was the Father under the Mother of God, Queen of Heaven? "How is it that the Mother of my Lord (the incarnated Father) comes to visit me?" Makes perfect sense. Luke 1:43
(That was humour.)