ExposingThe
Trinity!
Who is the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit flows from God to Christ, then to all true believers.
Nab B, October 2016
“Rightly Divide the Word” (2 Tim 2:15-18)
“Shun the Traditions of Men” (Col 2:8)
A Different Approach!
I hope my unorthodox approach will show you how the Trinity doctrine is inadequate to fit what is revealed in the scriptures.
My interest, and hopefully yours, is to find what God is saying, not what a system of theology is saying! My notes endeavour to show how the scriptures, though profoundly deep, are equally clear and simple to understand if we allow His Spirit to guide us. Whether you agree or not, let us "speak the truth in love". (Eph 4:15)
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We know that “God is Spirit.” (John 4:24) We also know that God is “Holy, Holy, Holy.” (Isa 6:3) The Holy Spirit is not a separate person from God like an impersonal force or the third person of a trinity.
The Holy Spirit is the power of God that is creating, acting, influencing, controlling and guiding everything. It is not something separate from Him.
"How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" (Luke 11:13)
"And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God" (Eph 4:30)
The Holy Spirit Flows From the Father to the Son to us
Notice that the consoler (spirit of truth) is Jesus Christ himself,
"And I shall be asking the Father, and He will be giving you another consoler, that it, indeed, maybe with you for the eon...I AM COMING to YOU." (John 14:16-18) The Concordant Literal New Testament
Jesus received His Father's Spirit, (the life of God), which is sent to us:
“God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” (Gal 4:6)
After receiving his Father's Spirit, Jesus Christ distributes this to us:
"All things that the Father hath are mine Therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall shew it unto you" (John 16:15).
“Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.” (Acts 2:33)
Many Names, One Source, God
The Spirit
The Holy Spirit
The Spirit of God
The Spirit of Christ
The Spirit of Truth
The Comforter
The Consoler
How The Holy Spirit Flows
The Father is in the Son. The Son is in all true believers. Therefore, the Father is in all true believers. The Holy Spirit flows from God, to Christ, and in all.
This is how we obtain "the divine nature" as expressed by the Apostle Peter:
"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." (2 Pet 1:4)