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Why does the Book of Revelation allocate such a subordinate role to the Holy Spirit?

Mike Borden has provided a biblical response to the suggestion that Revelation allocates a subordinate role to the Holy Spirit: Nowhere in Scripture is it the Holy Spirit's role or intention to be ...
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Why does the Book of Revelation allocate such a subordinate role to the Holy Spirit?

The Spirit is in us in Revelation’s vision. Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
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How it is possible to be one God in three persons (Jesus, Holy Ghost, and God the Father)?

Mystery of Godliness Even the great Apostle Paul realized that to understand God in totality was impossible. He often spoke of the mystery of godliness. (1 Corinthians 2:7, 4:1, Ephesians 1:9, 5:32. ...
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How do Trinitarians respond to the objection that God cannot be a man based on Hosea 11:9?

Another attempt to try and attack scripture and make it inaccurate. You cannot correct the Holy Spirit, the verse is correct in it's context that God who is sitted on the Great White Throne cannot be ...
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Why does the Trinitarian Formula start with "In the NAME…" and not "In the NAMES…"?

Synecdoche The single, unassuming word, Name is used, but it is being used as a synecdoche representing the full "Authority and Divine Power " of the Trinity. It is a singular word meant to ...
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Why does the Trinitarian Formula start with "In the NAME…" and not "In the NAMES…"?

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost - Matthew 28:19 We bring a lot of assumptions to this verse which, while not ...
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Why does the Trinitarian Formula start with "In the NAME…" and not "In the NAMES…"?

The three Persons in the one, blessed Godhead all have a variety of names and titles. There is no one single name for the Father, or for the Son or for the Holy Spirit. I won't develop that here as it ...
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From a non-Trinitarian perspective, how would you show that the Bible does not teach that the Son is equal with the Father?

Now that the question has been changed, I can give an answer. I am staunchly Trinitarian, but I am very familiar with literature that is non-Trinitarian, and which argues for the subordination of the ...
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Doesn't the Trinitarian reading of Genesis 1:26 violate hermeneutical principles?

TL;DR Doesn't the Trinitarian reading of Genesis 1:26 violate hermeneutical principles? No, but answering "no" requires understanding how Bible exegetes and Christian theologians do their ...
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Doesn't the Trinitarian reading of Genesis 1:26 violate hermeneutical principles?

The question somewhat conflates the purposes of hermeneutics with goal of interpretation. "Try to find the original writer's intentions when he wrote the biblical text" In his paper "...
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Doesn't the Trinitarian reading of Genesis 1:26 violate hermeneutical principles?

Why do trinitarians rarely mention the hermeneutical principles which have led them to this belief? Stack Exchange Biblical Hermeneutics has extensive archives regarding the hermeneutical analysis of ...
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How can the Son not know what the Father knows?

Some answers here have mentioned that Jesus had to give up his Godly omniscience attribute when he became a man. This is not true as Jesus knew where everything was at all times and this is evident ...
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How can the Son not know what the Father knows?

Beyond dispute, great is the mystery of our religion: "God was manifest in the flesh" (1 Timothy 3:16). When Jesus was a babe lying in a manger what was he able to do and what was he doing? ...
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