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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Speaking of Loaded language. First of all Paul did not separate anything. Yes grammatically speaking there seems to be a distinction and even a separation. But Paul never said that God is separate from Jesus, or The Father is separate from the Son or "Father, Son and Holy Ghost are separate persons" let alone use the greek word that later church fathers adopted for persons to describe a distinction between them.
Paul does this in my view because there was a distinction, but not a separation. Father and Son were different just as the Divine nature was to the Human.
You will notice that in all those salutations the distinction or separation of the Spirit is lacking.
BTW I say "Father" all the time. Because God is my Father.
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Prax, I understood Shag to be questioning why the SAME language used in scripture seems to be unacceptable in todays churches. Not that he was questioning the
extent of the "separation" between the Father and the Son.
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