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He frames early Christianity as wrestling first with whether Jesus is man or God, and then with how Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and God relate to one another.
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Holy Spirit
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, so now what Donnie's like, oh, you know what? It's the Holy Trinity, okay? So this is a paradox. God is love, but..."
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Jiang says that when he teaches Dante he is trying to harmonize with and even be guided by Dante in a way analogous to being moved by the Holy Spirit.
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The relationship between God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is presented as a fundamental problem in Christianity from antiquity to the present.
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"Okay, so now what Donnie's like, oh, you know what? It's the Holy Trinity, okay? So this is a paradox. God is love, but..."
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"...the next debate is, what is the relationship between Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and God? Because all three appear in the Bible, right? So..."
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"...and guide me a certain way okay it's almost like the holy spirit right all right so that's that's what i believe it's kind..."
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"...the relationship between God and Jesus? There's also something called the Holy Spirit, which we haven't really discussed, okay? But think of the Holy..."
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"...to go now into a light on that which is the Holy Spirit's divinest of all nations so then i will go now into..."
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"...center of my eyes' pupil, he was the singer of the Holy Spirit who bore the ark from one town to another. Now he..."
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"...male child had to find through circumcision the power of the Holy Spirit and the power of the Holy Spirit and the power of..."
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"...first of all, God is the Holy Trinity. Right? Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and God, the Father, these are separate but equal. And so,..."
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"...But I'm saying, like, what in your life proves that the Holy Spirit must exist? What did he say?"
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"...is love if they say like god is the father the holy spirit you can't say god is love if they say god is..."
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"...for our salvation, he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate the version Mary and became man. For our sake,..."
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"the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son..."
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