Question:  Greg,

            Do you think it’s possible that Christ and the Holy Spirit are the same?  Christ said he would not leave us orphans, but would come to us and live in us, yet he prayed that the Father would send the comforter, the Holy Spirit.

            Joe

Answer:  Dear Joe,

            The biblical answer is yes and no.  “Her O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one"”(Deuteronomy 6:4).  Yet the New Testament tells us that the Godhead is not just God the Father, but Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.  Yet we are told that these three are one.  They have one name.  One name into which Christians are baptized (Matthew 28:19)

            One God, who exists eternally as three distinct, co-equal Persons.  There is nothing on the human plane that relates to divinity, so we cannot understand with human relationships how divinity is one, yet three.  But the Bible reveals God to us in that way.

            Each divine Person of the Godhead has a work—“roles” if you will—sometimes more than one divine Person participates in activities such as you describe.  As they do, they are both one and they are distinct.

            In Christ,

            Greg Albrecht