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Originally Posted by Cal
The Father is always about source and essences, the Son is always about image and expressions and the Spirit is always about fellowship and experiences. The Son is God's self-image, so he is the image of God to us as well. The Spirit is God's connection and experience between himself and his self-image, so he is our connection with and experience of God as well.
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I agree with your characterization by and large, but the idea of subservience is needed to clarify the relationships. The Centurion said, "I also am a man under authority, with servants under me". You see 'under' is cited twice in sequence. Likewise the Son is under the Father, the Spirit under the Son, the believers under the Spirit.
John 14:28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe."
"I [Jesus] come to do Thy [Father] will, behold in the scroll of the book it is written concerning me". The Father sends the Son, the Son sends the Spirit, the Spirit sends the believers and guides them, and none (Father/Son/Spirit/Believers) is confused or conflated with each other.
John 20:21 "As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you"
John 17:18 "As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world."