Question 11. What does it mean to say that the Son and the Holy Spirit are the same God as the Father?

 

Question 11. What does it mean to say that the Son and the Holy Spirit are the same God as the Father?

Answer. The Bible clearly states that the Son and the Holy Spirit are the same God as the Father, and it gives to the Son and the Holy Spirit all the names, attributes, works, and worship that are due to God alone.

 

1 John 4:13 "By this we know that we abide in him (en auto) and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit." The one who gives the Holy Spirit to the saints is the resurrected Christ. The resurrected Christ is not a man, but Jehovah God, but he remains the Son of God until the judgment at the end of the world. Therefore, when Christ gives the Holy Spirit, it means that God pours the Holy Spirit onto Christ, and Christ pours the Holy Spirit onto the saints. Therefore, the Son and the Holy Spirit are not the same God as the Father.

En auto means in Christ. When the Holy Spirit comes, the saints are in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, Christ also is in the saints by the power of the Holy Spirit. The one who gives the baptism of the Holy Spirit is Christ himself.

1 John 4:14-15 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him, and he in God.

It shows the relationship between God the Father, the Son Jesus Christ, and the saints. "We" refers to the group of disciples including John. They are those who saw Jesus Christ directly. Those who acknowledge that he is the Son of God are those who are in Christ, and God the Father dwells in the saints. Here, we can see the image of the unity of God the Father, God the Son, and the saints in the Holy Spirit.

Under the premise that the Father, Jesus Christ, and the saints become one in the Holy Spirit, the unity expresses the relationship between God and man that is revealed through the Son of God on this earth, and also expresses the relationship between Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the saints in the kingdom of God. The unity is not only revealed through God, the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit, but can also be seen working between God, the Son of God, and the saints.

In this way, the unity is a picture to explain the unity of God and the saints. Originally, they were one, but they were separated by the sinful angel, so the Bible explains that they must return to one again. However, when people introduce the Trinity, it is as if there is one God in three persons, but with the vague explanation that they are one, and if people use the Trinity as an explanation theory for God, the original meaning changes.

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