If you quote John 1:1 to prove your 'eternal logos' comment, I disagree.
Question, what translation is this? I don't find "Holy Spirit" in the first 6 translations I've checked. They all say "the Spirit" or "of the Spirit". I prefer 'of the Spirit' because the Greek word tou
I've studied this in the past. And it also means the many membered BODY of CHRIST eg the church;
Great testimony, it will be fun to tell pastor your story.
That paper back 'Good News for Modern Man' translation NT I bought, looked pretty thick, since I had never even cracked a OT/NT bible before. So I decided I'd just read 'the last chapter' and see how things turn out. 
Scared the HELL into me, reading 'the book of Revelation'. 6 months later I went with my new girlfriend, to her Lutheran church where we spent the next for 2 years. That's when I soured on the 'organized church'. Then it was Charismatic home churches for 17 years in 3 cities. Then God called us back into 'structured setting' where we spent 23 in a quasi Charismatic church. Then, 4 more in a home church at our house. Then 3 years in a small (50+) Baptist church. Hey, I can get along with anyone in my 'holy spirit of Christ' led flesh'....believe it or not. We were still tongue praying and full charismatic believing in that Baptist church which had 2 pastors in that 3 year time. Both of which I told; I prayed in tongues in their service and they already knew that raised my hands in worship....along with 2 others. They didn't care, if I prayed in tongues..."as long as no one could hear me." 
Then God called us back to the quasi Charismatic church we went to for 23 years, and that's where we are now. When I told our Baptist pastor we were leaving, he actually shocked me by asking if he had done anything wrong to make us go. I told him "No! You were totally gracious, God is calling us back to Cornerstone" We are still friends to this day.
OK Crypto, back to "iron sharpening iron" but only if 'the angle of our attitudes' are held to a degree that promotes sharpening and not sparks flying.
OK Crypto, back to "iron sharpening iron" but only if 'the angle of our attitudes' are held to a degree that promotes sharpening and not sparks flying.
As to your question; I've been saying, when the eternal spirit Word gave up being a 'divine spirit' to becoming a 'mortal temporal flesh' body that had to die....there was no eternal life in 'the LOGOS/WORD that became flesh' that DIED and was DEAD for 3 days. Jesus surrendered his spirit to the Father from that cross which made that body breath its last and die. Scripture says that "the body without the spirit is DEAD." On the cross He never said "Father, into thy hands I commit OUR Spirit or YOUR Spirit!", or "the Holy Spirit". He committed "my spirit"....the spirit of Christ in Him. And it was 'that spirit' which raised His dead body to life again 3 days later, after it went to the Father, then to prison "to preach to the spirits that formerly did not obey...in the day's of Noah. 1 Pet 3:19
OK, I think I'm pretty much done. This is way too much posting for me. I'm not going to be living here, in cyber church. But if 'you' still have more to say, I'm willing to keep playing with 'one' of God's kids. And Rick yielded to you in his post. That still works for me.
It's too bad you were told that misinformation, divorce does not stop a Catholic from receiving communion. A Catholic who wants to date or remarry and who is civilly divorced is supposed to first get annulment, a lot of annulments are given because the individuals were not mature enough to understand/realize what marriage is supposed to be.
How old are you? The RC church has made a lot of reforms since I was born in 1949, maybe that "misinformation" was true then, in 1968. I've shared this testimony with a million (sic) Catholics over the last 50 years, and this is the first time anyone has ever said it wasn't true.
And, maybe the priest lied just to try to get me to stick it out as part of the "for better or worse" vow.
Priests are hardly perfect and not all are well informed on every subject. There's a good article at the link, but to cut to the chase it states: "For some reason, in years past it was taught erroneously by certain pastors that a divorced Catholic could not receive Holy Communion. This has never been the case."How old are you? The RC church has made a lot of reforms since I was born in 1949, maybe that "misinformation" was true then, in 1968. I've shared this testimony with a million (sic) Catholics over the last 50 years, and this is the first time anyone has ever said it wasn't true.
I actually did go through the annulment process 10+ years later. Not for myself, but for my X wife who wanted to marry another Catholic. She actually wasn't one when she got pregnant and we "had" to get married. We had to go through a counseling period with the monsignor in order to get married. During the time of that process and with a lot of advice from friends who really new me, I realized this wasn't a love relationship, it was a lust relationship. She got pregnant the first time I'd ever had sex (not the first for her). But I kept trusting that this 'man of God' would actually hear God and tell us that he needed to refuse us from getting married. At our last pre-marital meeting with the monsignor my heart just sank when he announced "Well this is our last session, we'll see you at the church." I was so 'taken' I actually told Sherry to go on out to the car because I wanted to ask him one more thing. When she left, I poured out my heart and told him this was not good, I wasn't ready ect. ect. We were standing at the door when I did this. He literally pushed me out the door and said "We'll see you...'whatever day'....our marriage was scheduled for. Honestly, the annulment process was a joke IMO. I was interviewed by a young priest and asked some pretty lame questions I thought. But I did enjoy witnessing to him, and giving him a testimony of how I wasn't even saved until 4 years after we were divorced, so as far as I was concerned that marriage had no biblical grounds for some annulment process you paid $300 for ($1,000 now) so some Cardinal/whoever reading about it could say this marriage wasn't approved by God...or whatever/whoever it was supposed to appease.
It all worked for the better though. I was raised believing I was saved because I jumped through all the "rituals" of 'The Church' (infant baptism, confession, confirmation, catechism, mass ect ect). Part of my testimony is I was literally born with a drug problem. MY mom 'drug' me/us to church every Sunday no matter if you were sick or whatever. The only problem is, 'religious RITUAL' without a spiritual REALITY saves nobody. And being raised 'in the church' no more makes you 'a Christian, than being raised in a garage, makes you a car. And that "bad misinformation" you mentioned did lead me to believe I wasn't saved (which was true) and headed to hell. So believe me, those next 4 years included so much evil, that for the first 10 years after being saved, I told people I'd still be in prison if I'd have got caught for half of what I did.
I do appreciate your heart on this though Valletta.
OK Crypto, back to "iron sharpening iron" but only if 'the angle of our attitudes' are held to a degree that promotes sharpening and not sparks flying.
As to your question; I've been saying, when the eternal spirit Word gave up being a 'divine spirit' to becoming a 'mortal temporal flesh' body that had to die....there was no eternal life in 'the LOGOS/WORD that became flesh' that DIED and was DEAD for 3 days.
