Red Baker
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Greetings again Red Baker,
The strangeness comes from your end~all I was doing was repeating your words. Much like your words here:You seem to give a strange assessment of what I believe concerning God's Holy Spirit. I consider that when God the Father wants to accomplish a special task that He does this by means of His Holy Spirit. Two examples, the inspiration of the Scriptures and the conception of Jesus in the womb of Mary.
Why not just say: All scriptures is given by the inspiration of God~or, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee?He does this by means of His Holy Spirit
It was you that said above:
as the "Holy Spirit" and ""the power of the Highest" are equated in a poetic parallelism
It is strange, care to expound on this to clear up what exactly you mean concerning the Holy Ghost? The Holy Ghost/Spirit is the Creator of all things, he is God without qualifications. He is not a force that comes from God, or, a power used by the Father as you put it.....he IS God. He lives in eternity and with those who have a humble and contrite spirit.that they in effect deny God the Father, Jesus the Son of God and the Holy Spirit, God the Father's power.
Yes~Do you include Gabriel in this "first time"?
God is a Spirit~from there we must understand what those verses cannot mean. Spirit do not have bodily features as flesh and blood does. Angels are also spirits ~ministering spirits for serving God's elect. How the Spirit God speaks to these spirits is unknown to us, but he does and they do his will perfectly with haste. They are in one sense always before his presence, since there's no place God is not there, no place.Luke 1:18–19,26 (KJV): 18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years. 19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
No man can see God in his Infinite glory not even angels, no one~yet, in the person of Jesus Christ we see God perfectly because he is the express image of who God is, the only difference is God is a Spirit and that will never change he will continue forever to live in eternity~yet we have him in a glorified body in the person Of JESUS CHRIST, who in his times will show who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.1st Timothy 6:14-16~"That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.