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To: Catsrus

“Also, when Jesus was baptized - he came up out of the water, the Father spoke from heaven, and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in the form of a dove. Another example of the trinity.”

Mat 3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he [Jesus] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

Mat 3:17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This [Jesus] is my [God’s] beloved Son, in whom I [God] am well pleased.

Was the Holy Spirit descending on Christ as he came out of the water, just Christ or God The Father descending on himself?

was Christ a ventriloquist speaking as God the Father as Christ ascended out of the water after being baptized by John The Baptist?

why do my fellow Christians make the nature of the Godhead so complicated? it seems obvious to me as a Christian that God The Father looked down from Heaven and declared that he was well pleased, not in himself, but in His Son, Jesus.

3 separate beings having one purpose seems to fit Occam’s razor’s approach to finding the answer to puzzling questions.


128 posted on 11/22/2012 2:03:37 PM PST by IWONDR
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To: IWONDR
Except that Christianity is not polytheistic...
137 posted on 11/22/2012 3:28:20 PM PST by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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