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NASB | Acts 15:8 "And God, who knows the heart, testified to them giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 15:8 "And God, who knows and understands the heart, testified to them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us; |
Subject: Giving them the holy spirit [sic]? |
Bible Note: Hi LGC, Isn't it wierd how we all have words that we have to always think about to make sure. Deity and weird are two words like that for me. One of the words of difficulty for this forum's member is "angles". Perhaps we can look at these spirits from a different angle. 1) deity: 1. the state of being a god; divine nature; godhood 2.pl. -ties a god or goddess--the Deity God Earlier when you said that you would not capitalize deity, I wanted to disagree with you. A god or a goddess is a deity, but the one true God is Deity. Colossians 2:9, NASB, "For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form." NKJ, "For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." (Talk about misspelling and proofreading, I just noticed that my older copyright NASB reads "fulness" which is an alternate spelling.) When we consider "angels" and spirits and messengers I believe that it is important to consider that an angel is a spirit. For instance, I would say that Acts 8:29 should have a lower case "spirit" because verse 26 identifies it as an angel of God. Similarly, for Acts 8:39 when the angel caught Philip away. I believe that it is important to be able to make these differences because of the references to the Angel. There is a difference between a spirit and the Spirit. John the baptist was a messenger, whereas Christ was the Messenger. John was that one and Jesus was that One. John was considered to be a prophet whereas Jesus was indeed the Prophet. These things are important because they were important to the writer of the book of John. Do you have more comments on Acts 15:8 ? How about Romans 8:15? Have we received a spirit or the Spirit of adoption as sons? From the heart, Ray |