The Holy Spirit and the Nature of God

My post tonight is my response to an email I received earlier, and here is what the individual wrote to me: "I just check your site and you state GOD THE FATHER IS A Person Wich is not the bible GOD IS A SPIRIT John 4:24." The remainder is my response: Angels are spirits too, but they are persons, having bodies (Heb. 1:13,14). God is a 'spiritual being,' even as angels are, and as the Son is. Jesus clearly said God has a face, and that he has a bodily form (Mat. 18:10; Jn. 5:37). So yes, God is Spirit, or a Spirit, however you translate it; and we know that God is holy also. So then, what Spirit is God of? The holy Spirit of course. God's entire being consists of holy Spirit, including body, soul, and spirit. So it was with the Son in the day that he was begotten of the Father, seeing he is "the express image of his person" (Heb. 1:3). That is why the Son is also God, because he couldn't possibly be anything else, being wholly begotten of the Father's substance. Since the Son came here as a man, and went back to heaven as a man, and was glorified; he is now both man and God. He is the only being in existence who is of two substances, being holy Spirit, and man. The holy Ghost is not a third person as it were, and my perception is that you don't believe that either; but rather the Spirit is what makes the Father and the Son 'one' (Jn. 10:30; Jn. 17:21-23). They are two persons who have one kind of spiritual composition. That makes them of one mind, one purpose, one love, one holiness, one truth, one power, etc. That is what Jesus prayed that we would be, and he clearly showed that us having the holy Ghost was the way it would happen (Jn. 17:22; Rom. 6:3,4; I Pet. 3:18). The apostle Paul also exhorted believers to be one in that way as well (Rom. 15:6; I Cor. 1:10). For instance, let's take you and I. We are two different persons with two different bodies, but if we have God's Spirit in us, it will teach us the same things and give us the same love, etc; because it literally is the nature of God, as the Bible shows us: "And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us" (Rom. 5:5). God's holy Ghost body is a different texture than his holy Ghost spirit, and so it is with the Son. They both also have their own individual spirit, but holy Spirit nonetheless. Even as we as humans all have one spirit, which originally came from Adam, yet we are all individually unique as well. But our spirits are all of one substance, and that is how the Father and the Son are also.

The holy Ghost is called "the Spirit of Life" in Romans 8:2, and it is also called "the eternal Spirit" in Hebrews 9:14. Well, one plus one equals two; which is to say that the holy Ghost IS eternal life! That is the life that first dwelt IN the Father, which he gave to dwell IN the Son in the day that he was begotten, before all things existed (Jn. 5:26; Col. 1:16,17). The holy Ghost is what I like to call God-Life, and that is why Jesus came to this world, to give us God-Life. In fact he said so himself: "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have LIFE, and that they might have it more abundantly" (Jn. 10:10). John the Baptist also told us why Jesus came to the world, in just a little different terminology: "I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost" (Mk. 1:7,8). They were both saying the same thing, just in two different ways. The holy Ghost IS the 'life' that Jesus came to give us, and it is surely "more abundant" than our mere human life, seeing it is literally God-Life. So the eternal life substance of God is not something separate, or apart, or outside the persons of God and his Son, as the 'trinity' proponents believe; nor it is it another person of the God family. God's life is IN himself, and that same life is also IN the Son, even as Jesus clearly stated (Jn. 5:26). When we are baptized with that same eternal life substance, we are literally IN Christ, and IN the Father, by means of being included in their life substance. This is in fact how Jesus said we would be made 'one,' even as he and the Father are one: "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us... I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one" (Jn. 17:21,23). That is why in both places where Jesus said that he and the Father are 'one,' he did not mention the holy Ghost, because the holy Ghost IS HOW they are one! By the way, 1 John 5:7 is known clearly to be an interpolation, meaning it is not found in the earliest Greek manuscripts. The same is true with Matthew 28:19, both of which scriptures are used a lot by those who try to prove the 'trinity' doctrine. But the Father and the Son are 'in' one another by means of sharing that same eternal, divine life substance. That is also how we can be in the Father and in the Son, and vice-versa.

Jesus explained these things also in John 14, the great holy Ghost chapter: "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth [it] not, neither knoweth [it]: but ye know [it]; for [it] dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you... I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you... 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" (Jn. 14:16-18,20,23). [I changed 'he' to 'it' because the translation of that word is wrong, 'pneuma' being a 'neuter' noun in Greek; meaning it isn't used in a male or female sense.] The Father and the Son "make [their] abode" with us when we receive the Spirit, because it is that Spirit that is the life and nature of them both, and connects them in true divine oneness; which in turn connects us to them both. But to the point you were actually making in the email, that God the Father does not have a body, consider this: The Son is "the express image of his person" as the Bible says, so if God doesn't have a body then the Son can't have a body either; seeing he is his express image, which is to say a general replica. Also man is made in the image of God, and we know that we have bodies; which means it's impossible that the Father DOESN'T have a body, unless the scripture just isn't true. No, even insects have bodies, and all things are patterned in some way to some extent after the image of God; so it's certain that God the Father is not the only being in all of existence who doesn't have a body. All living things also have life, and with all living things their life is 'inside' of them, not some external person that tags along with them. So the reality is that 'the trinity,' which is the kingpin of all 'Christian' heresies, and 'oneness,' which is far less subscribed to; are both in error. As it is with us, the Father and the Son are two separate persons who have the same kind of life and nature within them, and that is their spirit, which is what we call 'the holy Ghost.' I didn't really intend to give a full blown lecture here, but as I started writing on this I decided I would use it for my daily facebook post. I appreciate your email, and you're welcome to email me any time, about this or anything else. God bless.