The teacher at adult studies this morning said there were two ways that Jesus was present with us after the Ascension, Jesus as friend tied(? connected? merged?) to our spirit and as the Holy Spirit. I scrunched my face in puzzlement and said I didn't see a distinction. He told me I didn't need to. Rather than feeling insulted I was relieved. It is much more common for people to assure me that it is very important, say the same thing in a different way, leaving me uncertain whether I have missed some deep truth of the faith, but still unable to make heads or tails of what they are saying.
I went back to thinking about Indo-European, Semitic, and Native cultures having a concept of friendship that that does not keep close accounting, which Europeans used to have but waned as clans became less central and business interactions grew more important.
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AVI, I agree that many differences in theology have no distinctions. Take prayer for example: there are all kinds of techniques, and explanations, and exhortations (differences) for powerful praying. Making it the responsibility of the Pray-or. But forgetting the power of prayer is in the One Who Hears. Or which personality of the Trinity should we pray to for which subject? Is there a real distinction since the different personalities are just different faces of the God of One Substance?
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