'Exactly the same description as for Christ. The Father raised Christ through the Holy Spirit. The power is ascribed both to the Holy Spirit and to the Father (as well as to Christ himself actually).' (Romans 1:4 and many others) (Dizerner, Mar 7)
'Romans 1:4?. You must have a different translation.' (Darin)
'Christ was displayed as Son of God through his resurrection with power through the Holy Spirit, but there is plenty of other verses to show this.' (Dizerner)
'Can you share any?' (Darin)
To which part are you referring Darin, power ascribed to the Holy Spirit, or to Christ Himself?
Obviously The Spirit is God, and The Spirit is The power of God, throughout scripture. So is the power of Christ also the power of God?
‘Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. 9 And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me’ (2Cor 12:9)
‘… so that I may gain Christ ,and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead’ (Phil 3:8-11)
‘I can do all things through Him who strengthens me’ (Phil 4:13)
It seems rather easy to see that the writers ascribe to Jesus the same power as of God, of righteousness, of resurrection (Glory, Life, truth, Holiness) etc. In fact
'all things' are in Christ that are in God and His Spirit. It therefore becomes almost impossible to start separating one from the other, because their distinctions are used one for the other. They have the same name in many instances, and switched back and forth by the writers, as if it did not matter, from beginning to end, to Alpha and Omega.
How would you separate one from the other after we have been taught that we are
in Him, He dwells in us, we bow our knees to Him, we worship Him, are taught of Him, Live in Him, are raised with Him, by His power, that works in us, forever and ever, how and who? How, or why, would you need to argue that they weren't One and the same Lord, and not only in name?
‘For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man ‘So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen (Eph 3:14-20)
How, and why, would we even want, or need, to separate Jesus' power from God's power in the above passage?
Remember also whom would indwell us:
‘What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people’ (2Cor 6:16)
Darin, God bless you and thank you for serving with our troops. You must then be familiar with the verse below:
"The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me'
Who is it that the psalmist is speaking of, Jesus or God?