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To: Creationist

Jesus, Jehovah and the Holy Spirit are three separate entities that always work in perfect union. While the word "Trinity" is not in the New Testament, the concept is. The best place to see it is in Matthew 3:16-17. The setting is the baptism of Jesus. Notice how all three entities are manifested at the same time but in three different places. Jesus is coming up out of the water, the Holy Spirity is descending as a dove, and Jehovah is speaking from heaven.


5 posted on 03/19/2006 8:11:12 PM PST by tenn2005 (Birth is merely an event; it is the path walked that becomes one's life.)
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To: tenn2005
Very good, except "Jehovah" is speaking. Jehovah = the Godhead, which includes all three persons. More properly, God the Father is speaking from heaven.

Regards

10 posted on 03/20/2006 9:02:51 AM PST by jo kus (I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore CHOOSE life - Deut 30:19)
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To: tenn2005; Creationist

Hi tenn2005! pardon me wilst I make a few comments.

You said **Notice how all three entities are manifested at the same time but in three different places. Jesus is coming up out of the water, the Holy Spirity is descending as a dove, and Jehovah is speaking from heaven.**

It is a small thing for one omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent Spirit of God (John 4:23,24) to do, not 1, not 2, not 3, but countless operations..at..the..same..time.

The Christ was fully man, but also God, because he was filled with the only God, "....for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given (I repeat: g i v e n ! ) ALL THINGS into his hands." John 3:34,35

"For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." Col. 2:9

A television has a body (the unit itself), a visual sign from out of thin air (on the screen), and a voice from out of thin air (on the speaker), but the electricity is the SOURCE of the power.

Who was healing the sick? God was.
Who was feeding the multitudes? God was.
Who was raising the dead? God was.

That's how the Christ died. The Father had left his body so he COULD die ("My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?). The Almighty God that fed multitudes, could have sustained that mortally wounded body (that had a man's soul in it) indefinitely.

The Godhead topic is one I really enjoy discussing.


11 posted on 03/20/2006 8:16:36 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....nearly 2,000 years and still working today!)
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