{"id":661,"date":"2009-12-14T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T18:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=661"},"modified":"2009-12-14T14:01:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T18:01:33","slug":"romans-816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/661\/romans-816\/","title":{"rendered":"Romans 8:16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Yesterday, reading Rom 8:16, &#8220;The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God&#8221;, the following occurred to me:\u00a0 If, as is commonly supposed in Christianity, the Spirit is a person, then would it not reasonable to conclude from the same verse that our spirit is also a person?<br \/>\n===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Of course!<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">That would agree with your proposition in the Jan 29 TFE, &#8220;Paul Was A Trinity!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/thoughts.php?tname=tfe01-29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">http:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/thoughts.php?tname=tfe01-29<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">See?\u00a0 I was right the whole time!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em>===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But then, as no one seems to draw my conclusion from this verse, that our spirit is a person, then would it not be reasonable to conclude that the Spirit of God, likewise, is not a person?<br \/>\n===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>That would be a reasonable conclusion, yes.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Also, is it a Greek grammar thing that the word &#8220;our&#8221; is indeed plural in the Greek but &#8220;with &#8230; spirit&#8221; is singular?<br \/>\nDamien<br \/>\n===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>I have noticed that such is often the case.\u00a0 We frequently find phrases such as &#8220;their heart&#8221;, where &#8220;their&#8221; is plural, but &#8220;heart&#8221; is singular.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John Yesterday, reading Rom 8:16, &#8220;The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God&#8221;, the following occurred to me:\u00a0 If, as is commonly supposed in Christianity, the Spirit is a person, then would it not reasonable to conclude from the same verse that our spirit is also a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}