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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
The last point sounds much like that Piper said (which was linked to earlier in this thread, quoting Jonathan Edwards). That is, the Father and the Son are clearly seen "persons" with the Spirit of love flowing between them. This is the picture I've sort of settled on. But would I bet $5 that this is the absolutely correct view? No, because I don't like to loose money, and any "sure bet" on the nature of the Triune God is not so prudent IMO.
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Yeah, that's more where I'm settling on currently too, with a "this may be an incomplete understanding" caveat.
John 17:3
Now this is eternal life: that they know you [the Father], the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
John 17:21
that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
John 17:23
I in them and you in me--so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Rev. 22:3
No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.
There is a Spirit of God, but it is not presented in the same way as the relationship between the Father and the Son, ever.