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CHAPTER 3: MEMBERS OF CHRIST (part 2)
Let us realize that it is God Who came at Pentecost and God Who comes to us. When we think of the operations of the divine Persons it is very easy to fall in tritheism, and to very many people the Son is not only a different Person but a different God from the Father, and the Holy Ghost different from both; but there is no distinction in essence between the three Persons, we believe and must believe in one God; our difficulty arises from having to describe a divine and (in the right sense) incomprehensible mystery in human language. The Holy Spirit is not another or an inferior God; He is God Who came upon the Church and enters into us.
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