Originally posted by robbie carrobie
you mean righteous indignation, well that's fine, however Jay, you have some deep
knowledge of this very subject from your perspective. I would like to thank you for
posting those videos on the Bible and cosmology and creation science, they were
particularly excellent! 🙂
As for JS357, i think he was just saying that he didn't want sidetracked by the usual,
exist not exist arguments which are quite futile and produce nothingness.
The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
What God IS in His nature can hardly be separated from what God DOES in His eternal purpose. What God is in His Trinity is unseparatable from His operation in His eternal plan.
God's plan is to dispense Himself as life and nature into man. For this dispensing there is the Source, there is the Course, and there is the Flow or the Transmission.
Think of an analogy of electric power to your home. Far away is the power plant as the source of the electrical power. From the plant to your house are the cables as the course connecting you two. And the voltage is the flow of the electrical current from the plant, over the wires and into your home.
Any analogy is limited. This helps me. God the Father is the Source of the divine and eternal life. God the Son is the expression of that life and nature from the Father to man. And God the Holy Spirit is the flow dispensing that life and nature from the Father, through the Son, into man.
The Trinity is related to what God's plan is - to flow out of Himself dispensing His life and nature into man that man may be one with the Triune God for His glorification and man's enjoyment.
And here is a plain verse in the Gospel of John which nicely conveys what I have just explained to you:
"But when He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality; for He will nmot speak from Himself, but what He hears He will speak; and He will declare to you the things wthat are coming. He will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine and will declare it to you.
All that the Father has is Mine; for this [reason] I have said that He receives of Mine and will declare it to you." ( John 16:13-15)
All that the Father has and is is embodied in the Son. All that is in the Son will be received by the Holy Spirit and declared to the believers. The Father is the source. The Son is the course. And the Spirit flows the riches of the Father which are embodied in the Son into the saved."
Though the Holy Spirit God finally reaches man in his innermost being. The Holy Spirit is the final reaching of God as divine life into man.
I hope this helps some. And to the scoffers of this world who don't care if the Holy Spirit exists -
"If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed! The Lord comes!" (1 Cor. 16:22)