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Do we treat God like the third person


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Hi! I think we do.. Any thoughts?

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I don't understand what you mean by "treating God like the third person" - can you explain?

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Sepatate entity

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God's person and work of salvation involves Him being mysteriously three- one. He also became man to accomplish

full salvation. Then He makes usbecome Him in life, nature, and expression yet not in His unique Godhead. So the overall

process of the Triune God out from Himself into man bringing man into oneness with Himself in an organice mingling

and union of life too intimately involves incorporation of the divine and the human.

There ends up being distinction between God and man yet hardly separation. Eternal love between us insures both 

this mingling and union and also distinction as objects of His love.  

 

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I think he means the same as when a person is standing in front of you and you speak of them in the third person instead of speaking TO them,impersonally

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8 hours ago, Snow said:

Hi! I think we do.. Any thoughts?

Give us an example - as if you were speaking to Him.

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6 hours ago, Snow said:

Sepatate entity

Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Father,  are one and yet three. Do I think of the three as separate beings? No! I think of God  as divine always was  is and will be God, in three persons but one God. Is God separate from me as a third person? No! God indwells in me.

If I am created by Jesus who created all creation I am created by God for use as God has purposed for me.  I cannot separate God out from me, as a third person, my making a separation between us. Though I can have a little talk with Jesus as the song goes, and as I do. I can and do speak to the Holy Spirit, I  speak to the Son, I  speak to the Father, but I cannot bypass any, for God is one and is within me as the Spirit indwells me. 

 

 

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Thank you for that clarification, @kwikphilly

When speaking to the Lord, which is understood as prayer, I use the second person point of view: You.

When speaking to others about the Lord, I use the third person point of view: He. 

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20 hours ago, kwikphilly said:

I think he means the same as when a person is standing in front of you and you speak of them in the third person instead of speaking TO them,impersonally

Hi.. This is what i meant.. Thanks Kwik ;)

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20 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Father,  are one and yet three. Do I think of the three as separate beings? No! I think of God  as divine always was  is and will be God, in three persons but one God. Is God separate from me as a third person? No! God indwells in me.

If I am created by Jesus who created all creation I am created by God for use as God has purposed for me.  I cannot separate God out from me, as a third person, my making a separation between us. Though I can have a little talk with Jesus as the song goes, and as I do. I can and do speak to the Holy Spirit, I  speak to the Son, I  speak to the Father, but I cannot bypass any, for God is one and is within me as the Spirit indwells me. 

 

 

@Neighbor Father, Son and Holy Spirit - deeply present in Scripture - are One God in Three Persons most gloriously.....

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