Christ Becoming The Live-Giving Spirit

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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

Isn't that the version they read in heaven?

My phone app interlinear reads 1 John 5:7 as: "For three there are bearing testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit and these three one are."

I'll pass on the KJV discussion.

But saying that any three that bear witness on something are one actually is not so unable to be understood. It is not a declaration that the three witnesses are "simply one," are "one on all topics and issues," or "are the same person." (Or any other thought.) It just declares their agreement on what is stated. I can understand that.

Now other verses say more comprehensive things about the oneness of the Father, Son, and Spirit — all three together and in groups of two. And there is much in some of those verses that is not easy to understand. And when we try to push all of it together into a single doctrine of the nature of "One God" our understanding gets even more confused. In fact, at that point, it is pointless to try to figure it all out. There is something of the oneness of the Godhead that rises to the level of "One God," not just a triumvirate of three. Yet they are also three. In our limited perspective, it does not compute. Yet it is not a contradiction — just lacking information and understanding to overcome the limitations of our poor minds and sphere of understanding.