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Why Jesus Said In John 4:24 That God Is A Spirit?
Jesus declared that “God is Spirit”.
In John 4:24 Jesus is explaining to her that true worship doesn’t
require a temple or one to be Jewish or Samaritan. Rather it requires
spirit and truth. God is ...
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Why Jesus Said In John 4:24 That God Is A Spirit?
John 4:24 Πνεῦμα ὁ Θεός
As is common with questions like this, English's strict a/the distinction poses a hazard.
ὁ Θεός we can take as a solid unit-of-sense. It's the same as when we say God with no ...
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Why Jesus Said In John 4:24 That God Is A Spirit?
One can say that God is spirit in:
a generic sense, in which sense everything that is not material is spirit; now, angels are not spirits in this way, for even angels have something in them that is ...
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Is there any hermeneutic reference that clearly shows differences between God the Father and God the Holy Ghost?
Three Persons
The NT repeatedly talks about the three persons of the Godhead, eg, Matt 3:16, 17, 28:19, Mark 1:10,11, Luke 3:21, 22, John 1:32, 14:26, 15:26-16:14, Acts 10:38, Rom 1:2-4, 1 Cor 6:11, ...
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Is there any hermeneutic reference that clearly shows differences between God the Father and God the Holy Ghost?
And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and ...
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Is there any hermeneutic reference that clearly shows differences between God the Father and God the Holy Ghost?
This is a great Trinitarian question. What we know from the Scripture, the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father (John 15:26) and is equal to the Father because knows the depths (that is to say, the ...
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1 Corinthians 15:44 - why is there there is?
I guess, grammatically it can be so, that is to say, the "if...then..." cause-effect correlation, like in a sentence: "If he is the only son of the king, then he is also the only ...
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2 Corinthians 5:1-8 - - What's in the tent?
The OP's question is answered by Paul in 2 Cor 5:1 (quoted by the OP) -
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is
destroyed, we have a building (οἰκοδομὴν) from God, a house not made
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