Who Is The Holy Spirit?

[seekerman]

Originally Posted by Originalist

While we are stones in God's temple, all the fullness of the Godhead does not dwell in us bodily.

According to scripture, it does...

Luk 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Act 7:55 But he [Stephen], being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

As Stephen was a temple of God so was Jesus...both were full of the Holy Ghost. It's the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, be it in Stephen or Jesus, which makes us a temple.

1Co 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.

I'm not sure what you're trying to suggest with your view that "Christ is not indwelt by the Spirit in the same sense we are". There may be a different working of that indwelling Spirit, but we are indwelt with the Holy Ghost just as Jesus was. Jesus contrasted that with those who did not have the Holy Ghost dwelling in them....

Mat 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.