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[Hill Top]

Hill Top wrote:
"I view the Holy Ghost as an appendage of God.
"A part of God that can be used to accomplish God's will in or for us."

Spiritblade Disciple wrote:
"So, not a person, right?"

Correct, as spirits are spirits.

God is a spirit, correct? Yet, Jesus is the express image of His person, right?

Right.
While God and the Word were once one, I feel that the Word, (who would one day be Jesus), had the "physical" duties...appearing on behalf of God on occasion.

[Spiritblade Disciple]

Spiritblade Disciple wrote:
"What do you think God being "all in all" means?

I think it means that God and Jesus will be just as much 'one', as God and the Word once were 'one'.
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1. How will this be different than what Jesus meant in John 10:30?

2. Why would "all" be limited to just the Word and the Father? Why wouldn't "all" mean "all"?

[Spiritblade Disciple]

Spiritblade Disciple wrote:
"God is a spirit, correct? Yet, Jesus is the express image of His person, right?"

Right.
While God and the Word were once one, I feel that the Word, (who would one day be Jesus), had the "physical" duties...appearing on behalf of God on occasion.

So, if God is a spirit, why isn't the Holy Spirit God?
Peter equated the Holy Ghost to God in Acts 5:4.

Also, the author of Hebrews equates Jesus with God, in Hebrews 3:3-4.

[Hill Top]

Spiritblade Disciple wrote:
"What do you think God being "all in all" means?

I think it means that God and Jesus will be just as much 'one', as God and the Word once were 'one'.

1. How will this be different than what Jesus meant in John 10:30?

In John 10:30, jesus and God were still separate entities, though one on mind and heart.
Eventually, they will be one entity again.

2. Why would "all" be limited to just the Word and the Father?

I don't know that "all" does not include everyone that is in Christ.

Why wouldn't "all" mean "all"?

It just might.

[Hill Top]

Spiritblade Disciple wrote:
"God is a spirit, correct? Yet, Jesus is the express image of His person, right?"

Right.
While God and the Word were once one, I feel that the Word, (who would one day be Jesus), had the "physical" duties...appearing on behalf of God on occasion.

So, if God is a spirit, why isn't the Holy Spirit God?
Peter equated the Holy Ghost to God in Acts 5:4.

Also, the author of Hebrews equates Jesus with God, in Hebrews 3:3-4.

The Holy Spirit is just one facet of God.
As was the Word, then Jesus too.
But all those facets are of one Entity.