Ola,
I wanted to ask you
something.
First, after reading your letter last week, I was
wondering about something.
"The Spirit of faith [that is,
the Holy Spirit] from the Father, dwelling within the Lord,
enabled Him to believe, and therefore speak the Word of God,
over three Days, resulting in His resurrection on
First-fruits!"
At first, when I read it, I thought that it was
the old doctrine of Dynamic Monarchianism or Adoptionism.
"The Lord Jesus Christ enters
into an eternal covenant with us when we acknowledge Him as
our Lord and God."
Clearly you believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
There has been Dynamic Monarchianism
(Adoptionists), Modalistic Monarchianism (Oneness), and
Trinitarianism.
Ola, which group is closer to what you believe?
If I remember correctly, Dynamic Monarchianism
viewed that Jesus was adopted to deity at his baptism when the
Holy Ghost came upon him.
They were incorrect, as Jesus didn't "get" the
Holy Ghost at his baptism, rather, he, as God, is that same
being.
II Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is
that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
The Lord didn't simply "have" that Spirit, but
according to the above scripture, the Lord "is" that Spirit.
A similar thing is seen in:
Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the
flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God
dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he
is none of his.
In that scripture there is the Spirit (Holy
Ghost), the Spirit
of God (Father), and the Spirit of Christ (Son).
That scripture is not teaching three different
Spirits for three different Gods, but rather the same Spirit
for the same one God:
John 4:24 God is a
Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him
in spirit and in truth.
The LORD is "a" Spirit, and the LORD is the
Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
It is not, like some teach, that only the Father
is Jehovah, that Jesus is some lesser-like Jehovah junior,
with the Spirit simply a force.
No, the Father is the LORD, the Son is the LORD,
and the Holy Ghost is the LORD.
Yet there are not three LORDs, but only one:
Deuteronomy 6:4 ¶ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our
God is one LORD:
The LORD is one LORD, and one is singular.
Yet clearly he has revealed that something about
him is three:
I John 5:7 For there are three that bear record
in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these
three are one.
Ola, it must have been me, misunderstanding you,
and if I did, I am sorry.
Galatians 4:6 And because ye are
sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your
hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
The Spirit in us who believe is called the Spirit
of his Son.
Yet it also says:
I Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not
that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which
is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your
own?
He is also called the Holy Ghost, who is in us.
Yet there is also:
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If
a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love
him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
According to that, it is also the Father and the
Son that is in us.
The Father in us? Is it too hard to think about
God dwelling in a Christian?
I John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess
that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in
him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and
believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he
that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God
in him.
Well, Jesus dwells in Christians:
Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell
in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded
in love,
Don't we ask people if they have Jesus in their
heart?
Colossians 1:27 To whom God would
make known what is the riches of the glory
of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you,
the hope of glory:
It says, "Christ in you".
Again, if I misunderstood you, forgive me, please.
Gino