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The Trinity/Binity, Part 14 (2): Is There Proof That Holy spirit Is a Distinct Personage? (Specific Scriptures)

DOES  PSALM 139:7   [ pa | in ]  PROVE THAT HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSONAGE? Some claim that this proves the omnipresence of holy spirit as a separate being, yet this scripture treats Jehovah's spirit as no more separate from, nor less abstract than, his own figurative "face", which merely shows how intrinsic holy spirit is to Jehovah, not a distinct personage. You decide:  Does this verse prove that holy spirit is a separate personage in a Trinity?  Consider:  Holy spirit is as much a part of Jehovah as his "face". DOES  ISAIAH 40:12-14   [ pa | in ]  PROVE THAT HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSONAGE? Some claim that this proves the spirit's omniscience or omnipotence, but it only shows that no one but God can measure or regulate God's spirit or active force as if regulating volumes of water, grains of dust or the weight of mountains and hills. Verse 13   [ pa | in ]  was asking who among mankind can instruct Jehovah. In fact, that verse s...

The Trinity/Binity, Part 4: How the Trinity/Binity Affects the Salvation Message

The Trinitarian/Binitarian holds some variant of the "Jesus is God" doctrine that says that God came down as wholly God and wholly man, or abandoning his Godship to become wholly man, or projecting himself into the body of a man, to show us how true obedience and worship is to take place and that he resurrected himself so that they may have salvation on account of their belief that Jesus is God. But such confusion does not continue when you remove the three-in-one or two-in-one doctrine from the picture. Suddenly a clear understanding of the Scriptures opens up that is neither confusing nor obsessively dependent upon proving a doctrine at the expense of understanding the information. If Jesus is not God, then Jesus’ example of obedience and worship still holds, but says that Jesus is proving Satan to be an apostate liar so that we may have hope that we may be redeemed in the sacrifice of a perfect man, Jesus, to counteract the disobedient act of a perfect man, Adam, and rec...