Boxjobox on modalism

[Boxjobox]

Originally Posted by Raptor

Yes, and there is no separate Holy Spirit. God is Spirit, the Holy Spirit.

Don´t bother to reply, I´m not going to further this discussion, God the Son is also God, in case you were wondering.

In reviewing posts, I saw that I missed this one, which is well worth responding to. Raptor follows the Lee method of theology of mixing, matching and coming up with derivative meanings and declaring that the derivatives are Bible truths.

John 4, where Jesus tells us that God is spirit, is a very chocked full chapter of John’s. It’s particularly interesting because Jesus is talking to a Samaritan woman about God, himself the messiah, and Jesus speaking of God as the Father who desires worshipers.
Raptor seems to have the one God three persons down pretty well, and uses the old “God the Son” , and makes the transition from God is spirit to God is the Holy Spirit readily. Thus, in his reading of scripture ( which I hope he does) more than likely when reading, let’s say Ephesians, his thinking more than likely would automatically breeze over a Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, internally translating that into a trinity persons thing, and in reading Paul’s beseeching the Ephesians to keep the oneness of the Spirit by holding to One God and Father of all, would, because that section talks about one Spirit, and one Lord, translate this into a triune thing as well, and slide easily over one God and Father, rendering the whole thought as Paul being a triunist, and therefore, anyone who would even question the trinitarian view is a reprobate fool.

But then, we still have Jesus’ word to the Samaritan woman that God-whom Jesus calls The Father, whom Paul and Jesus tells us is the one true God, desires worshippers, ie fellowship.

Most peculiar thing to take scripture and through various devices, to have what is written take on a quite different meaning and then practice the derivation rather than the truth.