Did the Holy Spirit Father All the Disciples?

John 3:3-8 NKJV Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

(4) Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

(5) Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.  (6) That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

(7) Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

(8) The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

In the Bible, the disciples are begotten of the Holy Spirit (John 3:6-8) and they are also said to have been begotten of the Father (1 Peter 1:3; 1 John 5:1). In the doctrine of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is not the Father. If the Holy Spirit and the Father are two distinct persons, then a contradictory absurdity results where Christians are fathered by two different fathers who begat them: (1) God the Father (2) the Holy Spirit. However, if the Holy Spirit is not a separate third person but the personal presence and power of God, there is no contradiction.

The Bible makes it quite clear that the Father and the Holy Spirit cannot be two separate persons otherwise one must accept the contradictory fact that one person begat/fathered the disciples of Jesus (i.e. the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity) but another person altogether turns out to be their father (the first person of the Trinity).

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