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If a reader does not find in Scripture the threefold personality of God, he or she might still learn much from Scripture about what the Holy Spirit can do in us and for us; but who he is, what he is, and why he comes into the picture at all would have to remain a blank.
It would be unthinkable for any Christian to ask if that would really matter, unthinkable to say that, provided we get whatever gifts the Spirit may have to give us, who or what he is need not concern us. No, one could not actually say that, not in so many words, but it would be possible to act as if it did not matter.
It seems ridiculous to try to give a skeleton analysis of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the reality without which there is no reality. Yet Christ has given us lights upon the inner life of God; he did not intend this to be ignored. At least we can make a beginning; in all eternity we shall not have made an end. For more than nineteen centuries the church has lived Jesus’ teaching on the three-in-one…
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