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Old 04-01-2008, 05:14 AM   #19
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as to: omniscience
the FATHER: yes, total, 100% Jeremiah 17:10

the SON: yes, 99.99999% Revelations 2:23 (Jesus doesn't know the time of His return...only the Father knows); John 14:28; Mark 13:32; John 5:19; & I Corinthians 15:28)

the HOLY Spirit: yes, 99.99999% I Corinthians 2:11 (only the Father knows the time of Christ's return)

as to: benevolence
the FATHER: thru it, God leads man toward repentance, toward "belief"
Romans 2:4

the SON: thru God's benevolence, Jesus cleanses believer, Ephesians 5:25
the HOLY Spirit: thru God's benevolence, the Spirit instructs and enables the believer, Nehemiah 9:20

as to: creation of the world
the FATHER: He conceived it and created it Gen.. 1:1
the SON: He was there from the beginning John 1:1-3, 10
the HOLY Spirit: hovered over it at beginning Gen.. 1:2

as to: creation of Man
the FATHER: formed the man Genesis 2:7
the SON: created man and man created for him Colossians 1:
the HOLY Spirit: his breath gives man life Job 33:4

as to: death of Christ
the FATHER: He conceived of and engineered the plan and agreed that such way was the only sufficient offset for the sins of mankind
the SON: He agreed to come to earth as a man, to play the role, to live and speak THE TRUTH, to be the Light of the world, and to undergo the details of all of the prophesies and suffer the death.
the HOLY Spirit: He came 50 days later, at Pentecost, to indwell believers therefrom, on into all the future ages Acts 2:1

as to:Sin
the FATHER: declared and defined sin
the SON: came to reveal sin
the HOLY Spirit: is always busy among people, and thru people and other means, urging the conviction of sin within the mind of a person (that person becomes CONVINCED...convicted)
"shouts" a warning to the believer about to fall off course


as to redemption of mankind
the FATHER: willed the process
the SON: willingly came, fully as a man, as the Father's obedient servant to accomplish The Father's will
the HOLY Spirit: came onto Jesus (as enablement ?...John 5:19) at his baptism (Mark 1:9)

as to salvation of an individual, role
the FATHER: designates/foreknowledges
The Elect

the SON: paid the redemption price and "knocks on the door"
...is the invitation to make a choice...for the "yes" hearer to say "yes"

the HOLY Spirit: LEADS individual to Jesus:
works thru those used to carry the Gospel that the message be conveyed
...quickens the mind and spirit of the "hearer"
...enables the "yes" hearer to hear
..."saves" the "yes" hearer by enabling him to say yes


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