Those three vital components in the outworking of his purpose need to be understood individually, if one is to serve God acceptably. To fully understand the vital role that each play is vital for Christians.
So where do we get the idea that the Holy Spirit is a person?
What is the Holy Spirit? If we go to the OT, we find Moses struggling under the weight of his responsibilities in guiding his nation in the wilderness, so it was suggested that he appoint 70 older, spiritually qualified men to help him carry the load. This is where the operation of God's spirit is interesting.....in all God's dealings with humankind there was balance, so when God gave his spirit to empower his earthly servants, there was not too much or too little. In the case of Moses, God took the portion of the spirit given to Moses and shared it between all the appointed ones.
Numbers 11:16-17....
"So the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tent of meeting, and have them take their place there with you. I will come down and talk with you there; and I will take some of the spirit that is on you and put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people along with you so that you will not bear it all by yourself." (NRSVCE)
The Holy Spirit is God's active force....it is apportioned as needed, so it cannot be a person. In the Bible God and his Christ have personal names......the holy spirit is nameless.
God is the source of his power, exercised as he wills to accomplish his purpose. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost was shared between 120 disciples, enabling them to do supernatural things, like speaking foreign languages that they had never learned in order to preach the good news to foreign visitors to Jerusalem. (Acts of the Apostles 2:5-8) The holy spirit is a "helper", Jesus said.
The Bible does not support the Holy Spirit as a third part of a triune godhead. God's spirit is a necessary component in the outworking of His purpose. Jesus was given Holy Spirit at his baptism and could thereafter perform miracles. Before that, he was just Jesus the carpenter's son. The reason why his siblings did not accept him as Messiah was because he was just their older brother. He had no supernatural abilities before before his baptism because he was 100% human, not God in a man suit.
If you understood the mechanics behind the "ransom" you would know why it was not necessary for God to become a human. It would have been like paying a million dollar ransom with 60 quadrillion dollars. Overkill to the max.
Jesus was not just a prophet......he was God's representative in a unique capacity. Only he had the knowledge and past experience to act as a perfect spokesman for his Father, which is what his title "Logos" suggests. He spoke God's words to man.
He also has authorization to act as judge.
Acts 17:29-31.....
"Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” (NRSVCE)
Jesus has been
given authority by his Father to judge the world.
In Matthew 28:18, just before giving his disciples their commission to preach and make disciples, Jesus said...
"And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." (NRSVCE)
If Jesus was God, why would he need any authority to be "given" to him? This is the post resurrection glorified Jesus speaking.
After his return to heaven, Jesus still refers to his Father as "my God"....
Revelation 3:12....
"If you conquer, I will make you a pillar in the temple of my God; you will never go out of it. I will write on you the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name." (NRSVCE)
Can one part of God worship an equal part of himself even in heaven?
Like I said....you have to ignore a lot of scripture to accept the trinity as a Bible teaching. I came to see it as a man-made blasphemy designed by God's enemy to fool people into serving the wrong god. To put any other god in place of the Father, is a breach of the first Commandment. Look how many people in Christendom accept it without question? It forms the foundation for all other beliefs. If the foundation is weak, a building will collapse.
Any wonder that Jesus said that "few" are on the road to life. (Matthew 7:13-14) and that "many would acknowledge him as "Lord" but fail to gain his approval. (Matthew 7:21-23)
I see sincere people trying to defend these teachings but it is obvious that they have never considered the real scriptural evidence....I was in that position myself once, but I removed the cotton wool from my ears and actually listened, and the Bible spoke to me louder than any man.
More to follow.....