The Spirit of Christ is the Holy Spirit and is God and he is the one and only Lord God and if God is called the Father then Jesus is the Father as well as the Son and God is one person not three!
1Ti 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
One God is mentioned here referring to God in the role of a human servant and not three Gods!
God says man cannot bear witness of himself or else his witness is not true. Jesus said that about Himself even as God.
John 5:31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
For a witness to be true, man was to have at least two witnesses.
John 8:17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
We see this in the O.T. & the N.T. where by His words, the witness of one cannot put anyone to death.
Deuteronomy 17:6At the mouth of
two witnesses, or
three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death;
but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:15One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth:
at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Matthew 18:15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
2 Corinthians 13:1This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
So what God commands of men, to bear a true witness, so as God does.
Elohim is a Hebrew plural form of God and yet that is the Hebrew word for that One God. Jews cannot deny it. they try to explain away this;
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
That was the Word of God asking the Father to create man after "Their" image, after "Their" likeness and when the Father agreed, They did it as the One God with the Spirit in compliance.
Same thing when that One Triune God judged the people at Babylon.
Genesis 11:6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to,
let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Therefore God is not a One Person God by His words and by His actions as there are 3 Witnesses in that One God for how He can testify of Himself and to judge any one by His words.
Isaiah 48:16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me. 17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
The Lord God Father & His Spirit sent Jesus as He is God, Our Redeemer. That was why the witness of the Holy Ghost alighting on Jesus when God the Father spoke from Heaven regarding Jesus being God was done to fulfill the prophesy that the Lord God and His Spirit sent Jesus.
Matthew 3:15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. 16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Like it or not, the Three Witnesses in John 5:7 was originally scripture because that is how the witness of god is greater then men's in the earth.
1 John 5: 6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one
. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
IS 1 JOHN 5:7 NOT IN ANY GREEK MANUSCRIPT BEFORE THE 1600S? IF IT IS TRUE, WHY IS IT IN THE KJV?