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Originally Posted by Weighingin
With the Trinity, God in His essence, is Spirit.
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Are you sure? It might be correct to say that His essence is "spirit." But "Spirit"?
The place where we get "God is spirit" (John 4) does not refer to the identification of either the entirety of the One God, or of the Father in specific, as the person of the Spirit, but as an essence that is spirit. This is the very kind of confusion that Athanasius warned against.
That one of the Three of the Trinity has the name "The Spirit" does not cause it to subsume everything that has the nature as spirit. That is an exercise in equivocation.