Yet you say that the Holy Spirit is "another of the same sort"...is that not two persons; and therefore polytheism, and therefore also strong delusion as you define it?
But consider that the Holy Ghost has behind Him the experiential knowledge of having been human, as the Spirit that Jesus released back to the Father (Luke 23:46) who inhabiteth eternity. So that is a Spirit who is the Father (John 4:23-24, John 14:7-11, Ephesians 4:4) who is distinct from the Father in that He has lived the human life of Jesus; and He also proceeds from the Father (John 15:26).
Most definitely (John 4:23-24). And there is one Spirit (Ephesians 4:4). And the Holy Ghost is the same Spirit (John 7:39, Ephesians 4:4).
There is one Spirit (Ephesians 4:4). So if the Father is Spirit He is that one Spirit; and therefore He is "a" Spirit.
Most definitely Jesus is God (a Spirit, John 4:24) come in the flesh (1 John 4:1-3, 2 John 1:7).
Try Luke 1:35 on for size.
I beg to differ (see Isaiah 9:6). In order to dispute that the verse in question says that Jesus is "The everlasting Father" you have to change the wording of the verse, not once, but twice. And you have another problem because you are saying that the kjv is not inspired and inerrant. Which opens up a whole other can of worms.
No teh spirit being another comforter is not polytheism.
When you look at the Hebrew of teh Old and tehn put the gospels to Hebrew (they are available) you see that
1. Elohim is plural of Elowah
2. Adonai is the plural of Adon
3. The word one in the Shma is the "compound" one (see yachid and echad). Example. the Boston REd sox are one baseball team. They are twenty five persons in that one baseball team!
That is actually Tritheism (three Gods) if you consider them to be actually
separate.
Which is the teaching of
@101G.
Of course the devil will always come up with a label for sound doctrine in the hopes that people will consider it to be false and not believe in the truth.
I believe that it was D. Martin Lloyd Jones who said that if you have never been accused of preaching antinomianism, you have never preached the true gospel.
It is the devil's tactic to label doctrines that he hates and identify them as heresy to those who don't know their Bibles and therefore don't know any better.
The only solution to this problem is to be a Berean (Acts of the Apostles 17:10-11) and determine for yourself through continued study of the holy scriptures what doctrines are correct by seeing how they line up with the word of the Lord.
I think that modalism is not condemning to the soul if one believes in it.
It is not the Trinity that is essential to salvation according to the Bible; but the Deity of Christ that is the essential doctrine (John 8:24).
It will always be so to you; for you do not have the logical mind that can connect the dots to see how things logically follow from one another; so you will always perceive things that are sequitur as being non-sequitur.