The Holy Spirit resides in everyone who has turned from sin (repented of sin) and been water baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of their past sins. It was a gift since the day of Pentecost. Including to me. Did not rev. Dake think he had been given the gift of the Holy Ghost ? D...

Hill Top wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2026 10:53 pm I feel that people were made after "Our" image...God and the Word's.
It was the Word that bore our physical likeness.

Do you view the Holy Spirit as a lesser being than God and the Word?

Hill Top wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2026 10:53 pm Was He a little, tiny man, when He descended on Christ Jesus ?
Or a full grown man ?

I think His body is sized appropriately for an ideally sized man to whom a standard span of a hand would be 9 inches, and would therefore likely be about 6 feet, 2 inches in height.

Hill Top wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2026 10:49 pm I see things either as literal or emblematic.
If God were a man, He would need to eat and drink, sleep, get haircuts, trim His nails, crap, etc.

Why? Wouldn't being God exempt God from such requirements?

You are probably right about Pau's expectations of being alive at the Lord's return. Though I bet his hope of that occurring, may have faded as life went on. At a certain point, I am pretty sure Paul came to understand that he had the option of either departing early and being with Christ or of rem...

"Why would being "a Spirit" rule out being "a man"?" Because men are not spirits. "Paul is clear on the matter [that men are spirits]." Not clear enough, it seems. The Spirit of God is in the truly repentant & regenerated. There is no second man inside th...

Hill Top wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2026 3:26 pm Oh please...really ?
So a man landed on Jesus ?

If man is made in the image and likeness of God... And Jesus is the express image of God's person... And, the Holy Spirit is God... Then, if the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form, it follows that that bodily form was that of a man.

I don't see those scrip' as literally as you. I think that not seeing the scripture with the same degree of literalness explains a lot of disagreements concerning the meaning of any given portion of scripture. Probably not the only reason for differences in understanding, but a very common reason o...

If God is a man, then He is not a Spirit. Why would being "a Spirit" rule out being "a man"? I'd argue that the Bible doesn't rule out a man being a spirit. Consider what Paul says in 1st Corinthians 14. He says that if he prays in an unknown tongue, his spirit prays. In other w...

But the Holy Spirit descended in the likeness of a dove ! Not man shaped. Luke 3:22 New King James Version And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form LIKE A DOVE upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.” The Holy Spirit descended like a...