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Originally Posted by Raptor
Without the Holy Spirit, our faith would be useless. It would be like having the reality of "light" and the star, the "sun", but no sun rays. If there are no sun rays that convey the light through the sun, no rays to reach the earth, the earth would still be in darkness, frozen and dead. All of the following are directly from verses in the Bible, and this list does not include everything. The Holy Spirit is mysterious, like the wind; He is everywhere and has done and does many things, that only He could do because He is God:
The Holy Spirit
- [B]is the author, the source of the entire Bible [/
- is the Spirit of truth that guides into all the truth
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The biggest problem with WLs teaching was his taking snips of scripture, molding them together, coming up with his conclusion, making a statement based on his conclusion, speaking as if his conclusion was scripture, having all the saints Buy into and repeat his “scriptural” conclusion until everyone believed his conclusion was scripture.
Raptor, the scripture does not say the Spirit IS God, rather the Spirit of God. The scripture does say God the Father. And Paul beseeches us to keep the unity of the Spirit by confessing One God and Father, who is above all, through all and in all. You list the Spirit as the source of the entire bible; we should give earnest heed to what IS written and not alter thing to draw conclusions. Paul, in that great letter to the Ephesians, makes known the God and Father of our Lord Jesus. I think this would be the Spirit guiding us into all truth.
Modalism is a branch that shoots out of a God is three persons tree. A tree that the Holy Spirit does not guide us into. The Holy Spirit and Jesus and the Scripture guides us plainly, clearly into One God, The Father. WL lived off the three persons tree and filled the saints with this fruit, alls the while, the scripture spoke of Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus.
Jesus, after raising from the dead, spoke to Mary and said I ascend to my God and your God and my Father and your Father. God raised Christ from the dead and seated him at His right hand- gave him the highest position in the universe, put him over all and gave him as head to the church. I think this should be the content of the church, not that three person tree! which was NOT written by the Holy Spirit!