basicallyblues wrote:

>
> Even if Ignatius had said that the Son was equal to the Father in
> eternity, power, position, and wisdom, it would still not be a
Trinity,
> for nowhere did he say that the holy spirit was equal to God i

Does it matter?  What matters is what the Scriptures themselves attest
to.  If the Spirit of God which moved on the face of the waters, which
strove with the antediluvians, which came upon Moses, which gave skill
to artisans, and which inspired the prophets, is the power of God
-then the Spirit which came upon the Apostles, which Christ promised to
send as a comforter and advocate, and to which the instruction,
sanctification, and guidance of the people of God are referred, must
also be the power of God.  But if the Spirit is clearly revealed to be
a person in the later parts of Scripture, it is plain that the earlier
portions must be understood in the same way.  One part of the Bible,
and much less one or a few passages must not be taken by themselves,
and receive any interpretation which the isolated words may bear, but
Scripture must interpret Scripture.

Another obvious remark on this subject is, that the Spirit of God is
equally prominent in all parts of the word of God.  His intervention
does not occur on rare occasions, as the appearance of angels, or the
Theophanies, of which mention is made here and there in the Scriptures.
 Rather, He is represented as everywhere present and everywhere
operative. One might as well strike from the Bible the name and
doctrine of God, as the name and office of the Spirit.

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