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1 Corinthians 8:6 and The Holy Trinity

Runningman said:
By all accounts, there is no mention of the "Holy Spirit" being referred to explicitly as God anywhere. Sometimes the Holy Spirit is called a He, but Holy Spirit is sometimes simply used as a name for God. God is holy and Spirit therefore Holy Spirit.
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Read the VERY CLEAR words in Acts 5:3-4

“But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God…But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?…” (5:3, 4, 9)

The Apostle Peter says to Anania, that he lied to “The Holy Spirit (το πνευμα το αγιον)”. And then says, in doing so, he actually lied “to the God (τω θεω). And then tells his wife, Sapphira, that they had “tested the Spirit of the Lord”, by their actions.

Here we have the Deity of the Holy Spirit, where He is called “God”, and “the Spirit of the Lord”. Notice the definite article in the Greek, “τω”, with “God”, where it cannot be translated as “god”.

The fact that Peter says that the Holy Spirit is LIED to, is also clear that He is not "an active impersonal force", but a PERSON! You cannot LIE to a THING!

To lie to the Holy Spirit, says Peter is very serious, because Ananias had actually lied to THE GOD, Who the Holy Spirit is!

Also check this out, https://christianforums.net/threads/the-deity-of-the-holy-spirit-in-2-corinthians-chapter-3.102598/

Even the New World translation by the JW's reads, "You have lied, not to men, but to God"

As does the New Testament by the Unitarian, George Noyes, "to God"
 
SolaScriptura said:
it is YOU, and not I, who has said "I have no errors"!

Either you are God, or very seriously DELUDED! It can only be the latter, as your own "theology" clearly shows!
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I have no errors within the context we are discussing. If I have errors I am open to correcting them, but specifically in regards to your false OP, the information I have provided so far corrects it.
 
SolaScriptura said:
Read the VERY CLEAR words in Acts 5:3-4

“But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God…But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?…” (5:3, 4, 9)

The Apostle Peter says to Anania, that he lied to “The Holy Spirit (το πνευμα το αγιον)”. And then says, in doing so, he actually lied “to the God (τω θεω). And then tells his wife, Sapphira, that they had “tested the Spirit of the Lord”, by their actions.

Here we have the Deity of the Holy Spirit, where He is called “God”, and “the Spirit of the Lord”. Notice the definite article in the Greek, “τω”, with “God”, where it cannot be translated as “god”.

The fact that Peter says that the Holy Spirit is LIED to, is also clear that He is not "an active impersonal force", but a PERSON! You cannot LIE to a THING!

To lie to the Holy Spirit, says Peter is very serious, because Ananias had actually lied to THE GOD, Who the Holy Spirit is!

Also check this out, https://christianforums.net/threads/the-deity-of-the-holy-spirit-in-2-corinthians-chapter-3.102598/

Even the New World translation by the JW's reads, "You have lied, not to men, but to God"

As does the New Testament by the Unitarian, George Noyes, "to God"
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Correct. The Holy Spirit is a name of God in this context. There is no indication the Holy Spirit is another person which is why the Holy Spirit is often not mentioned where God the Father is mentioned.

Let's start with the fact that your spirit is not a separate person to yourself. Right? Well, God's Spirit is not a separate person in relation to Himself. I hope that helps.

1 Corinthians 2
11For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
 
Runningman said:
Correct. The Holy Spirit is a name of God in this context. There is no indication the Holy Spirit is another person which is why the Holy Spirit is often not mentioned where God the Father is mentioned.

Let's start with the fact that your spirit is not a separate person to yourself. Right? Well, God's Spirit is not a separate person in relation to Himself. I hope that helps.

1 Corinthians 2
11For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
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Another error

The Holy Spirit is both a Person and Almighty God in the passage in Acts
 
SolaScriptura said:
Another error

The Holy Spirit is both a Person and Almighty God in the passage in Acts
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Another error. The Holy Spirit is not another person. It refers to the power of God. God did not mate with Mary. This refers to God's power creating a baby in her. This was a miracle.

Luke 1
35The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
 
Runningman said:
The Holy Spirit is a name of God in this context.
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No, it isn't. By that reasoning, the Holy Spirit is also Jesus:

Act 16:6 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
Act 16:7 And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. (ESV)

Runningman said:
There is no indication the Holy Spirit is another person
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There is every indication the Holy Spirit is another person:

Joh 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

Joh 14:17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. (ESV)

Joh 15:26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. (ESV)

Joh 16:7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
Joh 16:8 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
Joh 16:9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
Joh 16:10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer;
Joh 16:11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
Joh 16:12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
Joh 16:13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
Joh 16:14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
Joh 16:15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you. (ESV)

The Holy Spirit:

Acts: Matt 4:1; Acts 8:39, 16:7
Listens: John 16:13
Speaks: John 16:13-15; Acts 1:16, 10:19, 11:12, 11:28, 13:2, 15:28; 1 Tim 4:1; Heb 3:7
Can be lied to: Acts 5:3, which is the same as lying to God (5:9)
Bears witness: Rom 8:16; Heb 10:15; 1 John 5:6
Helps, intercedes, and searches: John 14:16, 15:26, 16:7; Rom 8:26-27; 1 Cor 2:10
Teaches: Luke 12:12; John 16:13; 1 Cor 2:13
Gives gifts: Acts 20:28; 1 Cor 12:11; Heb 2:4
Leads: John 16:13; Gal 5:18, Heb 9:8
Can be grieved: Eph 4:30
Can be outraged: Heb 10:29
Can be blasphemed: Matt 12:31-32
Convicts: John 16:8-11

These are all actions of personal agency. And on it goes.

Runningman said:
which is why the Holy Spirit is often not mentioned where God the Father is mentioned.
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There are twelve verses where they are mentioned together. There are many more in which they are mentioned in the same passage. It should go without saying that any mention of Holy Spirit is utterly pointless, at best, if the Father is the Holy Spirit. They are distinct for a reason.

Most notably:

Mat 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (ESV)

Runningman said:
Let's start with the fact that your spirit is not a separate person to yourself. Right? Well, God's Spirit is not a separate person in relation to Himself. I hope that helps.
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Not at all. Be very careful in drawing such analogies; God is God and we are creatures.
 
Free said:
No, it isn't. By that reasoning, the Holy Spirit is also Jesus:

Act 16:6 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
Act 16:7 And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. (ESV)


There is every indication the Holy Spirit is another person:

Joh 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

Joh 14:17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. (ESV)

Joh 15:26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. (ESV)

Joh 16:7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
Joh 16:8 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
Joh 16:9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
Joh 16:10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer;
Joh 16:11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
Joh 16:12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
Joh 16:13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
Joh 16:14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
Joh 16:15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you. (ESV)

The Holy Spirit:

Acts: Matt 4:1; Acts 8:39, 16:7
Listens: John 16:13
Speaks: John 16:13-15; Acts 1:16, 10:19, 11:12, 11:28, 13:2, 15:28; 1 Tim 4:1; Heb 3:7
Can be lied to: Acts 5:3, which is the same as lying to God (5:9)
Bears witness: Rom 8:16; Heb 10:15; 1 John 5:6
Helps, intercedes, and searches: John 14:16, 15:26, 16:7; Rom 8:26-27; 1 Cor 2:10
Teaches: Luke 12:12; John 16:13; 1 Cor 2:13
Gives gifts: Acts 20:28; 1 Cor 12:11; Heb 2:4
Leads: John 16:13; Gal 5:18, Heb 9:8
Can be grieved: Eph 4:30
Can be outraged: Heb 10:29
Can be blasphemed: Matt 12:31-32
Convicts: John 16:8-11

These are all actions of personal agency. And on it goes.


There are twelve verses where they are mentioned together. There are many more in which they are mentioned in the same passage. It should go without saying that any mention of Holy Spirit is utterly pointless, at best, if the Father is the Holy Spirit. They are distinct for a reason.

Most notably:

Mat 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (ESV)


Not at all. Be very careful in drawing such analogies; God is God and we are creatures.
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The "Holy Spirit" as an independent "Person," is not found in the Old Testament. Additionally, the Jews, who received the Old Testament, did not recognize such a being. It's a well-known historical fact that the Israelites declared, "Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh alone" (Deut. 6:4) and Jesus told them the same thing in Mark 12:29.

If there isn't a distinct "Person" known as the Holy Spirit and no mention of a triune God in the Old Testament, then the triune God must be revealed in the New Testament. However, the New Testament doesn't explicitly help either. Every instance of "the Holy Spirit" or "the holy spirit" can be understood as either another way of talking about God or as the gift of God's nature given to believers for spiritual empowerment. No verse or context openly declares, or directly implies, the existence of a separate "Person" called "the Holy Spirit."
 
Runningman said:
The "Holy Spirit" as an independent "Person," is not found in the Old Testament. Additionally, the Jews, who received the Old Testament, did not recognize such a being.
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Which is neither here nor there, given the progressive revelatory nature of the Bible and that they didn’t even understand what the Messiah’s mission actually was.

Runningman said:
It's a well-known historical fact that the Israelites declared, "Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh alone" (Deut. 6:4) and Jesus told them the same thing in Mark 12:29.
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Yes, which is a statement of monotheism only, not a statement about the nature of God.

Runningman said:
If there isn't a distinct "Person" known as the Holy Spirit and no mention of a triune God in the Old Testament, then the triune God must be revealed in the New Testament. However, the New Testament doesn't explicitly help either. Every instance of "the Holy Spirit" or "the holy spirit" can be understood as either another way of talking about God or as the gift of God's nature given to believers for spiritual empowerment. No verse or context openly declares, or directly implies, the existence of a separate "Person" called "the Holy Spirit."
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I gave you a huge list of verses that very strongly imply the Holy Spirit is a person and is not the Father. But, you, unsurprisingly, left those unaddressed.
 
Yahwah has many titles and Holy Spirit is one of them. Yahwah is a Spirit and He is Holy.

Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truthand without iniquity, just and right is he.

Psalm 31:5
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

Isaiah 65:16
That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

John 14:17
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

John 15:26
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

1 John 4:6
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

John 4:24
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
 
Leviticus 24:16
anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord is to be put to death...

Mark 3:29
but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven...

Holy Spirit is a title for Yahwah. He is a Spirit and He is Holy. Yahwah has many titles.
 
Runningman said:
If you had an actual scriptural rebuttal I am sure you would have used it. Just due to severe lack of evidence to the contrary of what I said to you in my previous post, it seems this is all you got. Ok.
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This is incredibly disrespectful and dishonest, considering what I posted in post #29. Par for the course for anti-Trinitarians.
 
Runningman said:
The "Holy Spirit" as an independent "Person," is not found in the Old Testament. Additionally, the Jews, who received the Old Testament, did not recognize such a being. It's a well-known historical fact that the Israelites declared, "Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh alone" (Deut. 6:4) and Jesus told them the same thing in Mark 12:29.

If there isn't a distinct "Person" known as the Holy Spirit and no mention of a triune God in the Old Testament, then the triune God must be revealed in the New Testament. However, the New Testament doesn't explicitly help either. Every instance of "the Holy Spirit" or "the holy spirit" can be understood as either another way of talking about God or as the gift of God's nature given to believers for spiritual empowerment. No verse or context openly declares, or directly implies, the existence of a separate "Person" called "the Holy Spirit."
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RM,
The revelation of God was ongoing until Jesus.
The bible began to be written 4,000 years ago.
God reveals Himself in ways that people will understand.

This revelation includes Who the Holy Spirit is.

He is represented as a Person in the NT:

See post 29.
 
Runningman said:
If you had an actual scriptural rebuttal I am sure you would have used it. Just due to severe lack of evidence to the contrary of what I said to you in my previous post, it seems this is all you got. Ok.
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Did you read post no. 29?

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SolaScriptura said:
1 Corinthians 8:6 and The Holy Trinity

“But to us one God, the Father, of Whom all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom all things, and we by Him. And one Holy Spirit, in Whom all things and we in Him” (Original Letter by The Apostle Paul)

The words, “καὶ ἐν πνεῦμα ἅγιον, ἐν ᾧ τὰ πάντα καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐν αὐτῷ”, were removed at a very early time. Like 1 John 5:7, which also very clearly Testifies to the Holy Trinity.

There is some Greek manuscript evidence for this reading, and also known to the early Church Fathers, both in their Greek and Latin New Testaments, dating from the 4th century. This verse with the reference to the Holy Spirit, was also used as Bible proof of the Holy Trinity. At this Council, there were over 200 Bishops present, from the Greek and Latin Church, who would have had this reading in their copies of the Greek and Latin New Testament, in the 6th century.

The textual evidence for this reading is better than what we had when for Colossians 2:2, the reading “τοῦ θεοῦ Χριστοῦ”, was accepted as the correct one, from about 14 variants! At the time when Westcott and Hort used this reading for their Greek Testament in 1881, there was ONE Greek manuscript, the Codex Vaticanus, of the 4th century. And ONE Latin Church Father, Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, who also lived in the 4th century! Yet, the reading found in Clement of Alexandria (150-215), “τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ἐν Χριστῷ” (God in Christ), which is over 100 years older, and in Greek, was not accepted! The discovery of the Chester Beatty Greek manuscript, P46, dating from AD175-225, reads “τοῦ θεοῦ Χριστοῦ”, but this still makes it TWO manuscripts, and not ONE Greek Church Father! The reading, “τοῦ θεοῦ ὃ ἐστιν Χριστός” (of God which is Christ), is better attested, by the Codex Bezae, a Greek-Latin manuscript of the 5th century. The Old Latin Version of the 2nd century. The Latin Vulgate of the 4th century. Augustine in the 4th century, who knew both Greek and Latin. And the 4th century Greek Church father, Ephraem.

The famous “Woman take in Adultery” of John’s Gospel (7:53-8:11), is found in the Codex Bezae, which is 5th century. Yet, the scholar Jerome, who gave us the Latin Vulgate, writing some 50 years before, says that this passage was present in “many Greek and Latin manuscripts”, in his time. Augustine also comments that “enemies of the faith”, had removed this passage!

Like Colossians 2:2; 1 John 5:7; 1 Timothy 3:16, John 1:18, etc, etc, verses that are clear Testimonies to the Deity of Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Trinity, have been attacked from a very early time, and where possible, corrupted.

I have no doubt from the good textual evidence that we have, that 1 Corinthians 8:6, in the Original Letter by Paul, did also include the reference to the Holy Spirit.

Greek Manuscript

Uncial 0142, 10th century of the Byzantine text-type (Dr A Souter Novvm Testamentvm Graece.1962)

Minuscule 460, 11th century (Souter; Expositors Greek Testament), dated by F Scrivener

Minuscule 618, 12th century of the Byzantine text-type (Souter; EGT)

Minuscule 234, 13th century of the Byzantine text-type (Souter; EGT)

ATHANASIUS (293-373) – Greek

“As it is thus written, it is clear that the Spirit is not a creature, but takes part in the act of creation. The Father creates all things through the Word in the Spirit; for where the Word is, there is the Spirit also”

HILARY OF POITIERS (315-368) – Latin

“For God the Father is One, from Whom are all things; and our Lord Jesus Christ the Only-begotten, through Whom are all things, is One; and the Spirit, God's Gift to us, Who pervades all things, is also One” (On the Trinity (Book II, ch.1)

Although Hilary, who was a close friend of Athanasius, does not use “in Whom all things”, that fact is that he does refer to the Holy Spirit in this context, which is clearly from 1 Corinthians 8:6. The words are a free quote, as we have “the only-begotten”, etc, here for Jesus.

EPIPHANIUS OF SALAMIS (315-403 - Greek

According to Nestle-Aland's Novum Testamentum Graece (26th edition)

GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS (329-389) – Greek

“For to us there is but One God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and One Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom are all things; and One Holy Ghost, in Whom are all things” (Oration XXXIX, ch.xii)

BASIL THE GREAT (330-379) - Greek

“in the words of the Apostle, "One God and Father of whom are all things,...and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things." 1 Corinthians 8:6 "Whatever, then," he goes on, "is the relation of these terms to one another, such will be the relation of the natures indicated by them; and as the term 'of whom' is unlike the term 'by whom,' so is the Father unlike the Son." On this heresy depends the idle subtlety of these men about the phrases in question. They accordingly assign to God the Father, as though it were His distinctive portion and lot, the phrase “of Whom;” to God the Son they confine the phrase “by Whom;” to the Holy Spirit that of "in Whom,"” (De Spiritu Sancto, Chap. 2)

AMBROSE OF MILAN (339-397) – Latin & Greek

“So, then, as we read that all things are of the Father, so, too, that all things can be said to be of the Son, through Whom are all things; and we are taught by proof that all things are of the Spirit in Whom are all things” (On The Holy Spirit, Bk.2, ch.9. 96)

AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (354-430) – Latin & Greek

“God, not only the Father, but also the Son and the Holy Spirit, “of whom are all things, and through whom are all things, and in whom are all things” (On the Trinity, chapter XV. 25)

“Of whom are all things, through whom are all things, in whom are all things” (On the Origin of the Soul, Bk.I, ch. 24)

“from whom are all things, by whom are all things, in whom are all things” (Against Two Letters of the Pelagianas, Ch. 16)

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA (died 444) - Greek

According to Dr Souter, and The Expositor's Greek Testament.

JOHN OF DAMASCUS (675-749) – Greek

“But to us there is but one God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and one Holy Spirit, in Whom are all things” (Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Chapter X)

FIFTH GENERAL COUNCIL AT CONSTANTINOPLE, 5 MAY A.D.553

“If anyone shall not confess that the nature or essence of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is one, as also the force and the power; [if anyone does not confess] a consubstantial Trinity, one Godhead to be worshipped in three subsistences or Persons: let him be anathema. For there is but one God even the Father of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things, and one Holy Spirit in whom are all things” (The Capitula of the Council, The first "anathema”)

At the Council held in A.D.553, the then Emperor, Justinian I, sought to settle once and for all, the dangers of “Monophysitism”. At this Council, there were some 164 Bishops, who were mainly of the Greek speaking Church, with about 68 who were from the North African Church, which was mainly Latin speaking. Without going into too much detail of what took place at this Council, we shall look at one section of a document that was the outcome of this Council. We are told that “a series of 14 articles, or anathemas, was prepared, most of them corresponding closely with the articles of Justinian's 'confession of faith', in which the orthodox faith as to the Trinity and Incarnation was restated” (Dr H Wace, and W Piercy; A Dictionary of Christian Biography, p.612)

The evidence to the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 8:6, is in my opinion, very strong. Its omission is no doubt due to the corruption by those who were enemies to the Bible Teaching on the Holy Spirit.
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Several times-Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus was keep hidden in the palm of Gods hand and was revealed in these last days for our sake. But the Spirit of God was known long before Christ's reveal. In all that time was the Spirit ever called a distinct person from the Father?

The Host of heaven -To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb.....No honor given to a person of the Spirit either.

The Spirit of God is the Fathers own Spirit and therefore would have the Fathers nature. (God) but the mind and will of the Spirit would be the Father.
 
CherubRam said:
Leviticus 24:16
anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord is to be put to death...

Mark 3:29
but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven...

Holy Spirit is a title for Yahwah. He is a Spirit and He is Holy. Yahwah has many titles.
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Yahweh is the name of God and the Holy Spirit is a distinct "person" that is God in nature, along with the Father and the Son, not a title for Yahweh.
 
Free said:
Yahweh is the name of God and the Holy Spirit is a distinct "person" that is God in nature, along with the Father and the Son, not a title for Yahweh.
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Trinitarian formula

Some of the Church Fathers testified that Matthew wrote his gospel in Hebrew. The Trinitarian formula does not appear in the Shem-Tob Hebrew manuscript of Matthew. This Hebrew manuscript does not seem to have been copied from the Greek or Latin either. The omission of the command to baptize and the Trinitarian formula in the Shem-Tob manuscript contributes to the conclusion that the Trinitarian formula did not exist in the original manuscript of Matthew, but was a later addition.

Also:
In the fourth century, a group called the “Pneumatomacki,” who resisted recognizing “the Holy Spirit” as the third person of the Trinity, apparently used a text of Matthew that did not have the Trinitarian formula.

It is known that after the time of Emperor Theodosius (346-395), that writings that did not agree with the official position of the Catholic Church were to be sought out and destroyed.

The teaching of a Trinitarian formula word be something new in Orthodox Judaism, and there is no examples of Christ teaching the Apostles any such thing.

All of the New Testament teaches baptism in the name of Christ. The only place that teaches a different baptism is Matthew 28:19.

So the bottom line is this; there were bible text after the fourth century that did not have the Trinitarian formula.

Pneumatomachi, so called by the Catholics.
The Pneumatomachi, also known as Macedonians or Semi-Arians in Constantinople and the Tropici in Alexandria, were an anti-Nicene Creed sect which flourished in the regions adjacent to the Hellespont during the latter half of the fourth, and the beginning of the fifth centuries. They denied the godhood of the Holy Ghost, hence the Greek name Pneumatomachi or 'Combators against the Spirit'.

What they denied was the Holy Spirit being a third person of a Trinity. Holy Spirit is a title for Yahwah whom is a Holy Spirit.
 
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