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@Mall
I'm not entirely confident that I understand this last response to me, given your quotations aren't in "quotation marks", and the response is somewhat all over the place. 

If you need to you can re-respond to me with better format. 
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@Mall
Don't believe I can see it , believe that I can read it. I have not read what you've said. Like the scripture said if any man speak , let him speak the oracles of God .
With all due respect, if you aren't going to read what I say, then I don't see any purpose continuing the discussion. 
The verse you are referring to here is 1 Peter 4, which again says,"

"The end of all things is near. Therefore, be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen."
1 Peter 4:7-11

I don't know how exactly you are interpreting this passage to help your case, so I will therefore not assume your interpretation. 
However, I will establish how this specific verse (1 Peter 4:11) should be read as. 

This verse is not commanding believers to speak only using the Word(s) of God. It is saying "If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God." Implying that we should speak carefully, and we should not just be careless with our words. 
In other words, your words are super important, so act as if the words you are speaking are from God. 

That's another issue. Forget technically but scripturally. There is no arranging of God.
Ok fine. Scripturally, yes, the Holy Spirit isn't THE third. You could arrange the trinity any way you see fit.

Scripture say to speak according to as it is written, unto us there is one God the Father. 
You do know it is also written in John 10:30:
"I and the Father are one.”

Jesus is saying, he and the Father (referring to God) are one. Do you have a better alternative to interpret this?

First John 5 and 7 discusses that one God the Father. There is no time where God is not the Father. That's what has to be accepted from the scripture.
Yes. There is no time where God is not the Father. There also is no time where God is not the Son, and there is no time where God is not the Holy Spirit. 
That is the Nature of God. The Trinity. 

That is what has to be accepted from Scripture. 
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@Mall
Scripture say if any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. Everything you're saying I can't read in scripture.
You're probably referring to 1 Peter 4

"The end of all things is near. Therefore, be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen."
1 Peter 4:7-11

I believe you can see what I am saying in scripture, given that I have mainly used scripture to back up what I am saying. 
All of the elements of a Triune God are in scripture. 


But to us there is one God the father. There is one faith, one baptism, one body, ONE SPIRIT and God is a spirit. And without controversy , great is the mystery  of Godliness, God was manifested in flesh. For he took on not the nature of angels, but as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he likewise took part of the same, that through death he may destroy the one that had the power of death.
Here you are referring to Ephesians 4:4-6 which says,"
 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all."

And I completely agree with this scripture. One God. It fits well with the Triune Nature of God. 

Read a bit farther, and you will find Christ referred to as well. 
"7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8 This is why it[a] says:
“When he ascended on high,
    he took many captives
    and gave gifts to his people.”[b]
9 (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions[c]? 10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) "
Ephesians 4:7-9

Everything I stated there you can read in scripture. Once you stick with Scripture according to as it is written, you won't find conflicting statements of the Father not being the holy ghost and saying thus saith Lord where the Lord have not said according to the scriptures. You have no scripture that reads the holy ghost is a or the third person. That's made up theology.
Technically yes, the Holy Spirit isn't THE third. You could arrange the trinity any way you see fit. It is one God after all. There's no hierarchy in the Godhead. 
But in scripture the Holy Spirit is referred to as Lord. 

In 2 Corinthians 3:17:
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."




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@Mall
The Triune God of scripture is comprised of:
God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit

Yahweh is ONE God but with three persons, or a Triune Nature. 

So, The Father and the Spirit have the same divine nature, making them both God, however they are distinct persons. 

So, in the Godhead, yes, I guess you could say that there is one Spirit in the Godhead. The Spirit of God, who is God and will forever be God. 
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@Mall
It depends on what you mean by spirit. 
Every person/human have a spirit. 
And the Bible does sometimes refer to demons as "spirits". 
But the Bible does specifically point out the Holy Spirit. Mostly in the Gospels and the New Testament Books. 
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@Mall
Well, we have other examples as well, where all three are referred to as a plurality, but also as ONE God. For instance (and this time I will link the source. Apologies for not doing that before.)

Genisis 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Read More
Let us make man in our image. The text does not specify the identity of the “us” mentioned here. Some have suggested that God may be addressing the members of his court, whom the OT elsewhere calls “sons of God” (e.g., Job 1:6) and the NT calls “angels,” but a significant objection is that man is not made in the image of angels, nor is there any indication that angels participated in the creation of human beings. Many Christians and some Jews have taken “us” to be God speaking to himself, since God alone does the making in Gen. 1:27 (cf. Gen. 5:1); this would be the first hint of the Trinity in the Bible (cf. Gen. 1:2).


Also in 2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Read More
the Lord is the Spirit. Different explanations have been offered for this difficult and compressed statement: Paul may be saying that Christ and the Spirit function together in the Christian’s experience—i.e., that the Lord (Christ) comes to us through the ministry of the Spirit (though they are still two distinct persons). Another view (based on the reference in v. 16 to Ex. 34:34, “Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him”) is that the “Lord” here refers to Yahweh (“the LORD”) in the OT (that is, God in his whole being without specifying Father, Son, or Spirit). In this case, Paul is saying that Yahweh in the OT is not just Father and Son, he is also Spirit. In either case, Paul’s primary point seems to be that the Christian’s experience of the ministry of the Spirit under the new covenant (2 Cor. 3:3–8) is parallel to Moses’ experience of the Lord under the old covenant—i.e., that the Spirit (under the new covenant) sets one free from the veil of hard-heartedness (vv. 12–15). Paul regularly distinguishes Christ from the Holy Spirit in his writings, and that is surely the case even here, since later in this verse he speaks of the Spirit of the Lord. Moreover, it should not be supposed that Paul is teaching that any of the members of the Trinity (the Father, the Son, or the Spirit) are the same person, which would be the heresy of modalism; instead Paul is stressing the gracious unity of purpose among the three persons of the Trinity. There is freedom, though unspecified in the context, most likely refers to the many kinds of freedom that come with salvation in Christ and with the presence of the Holy Spirit: that is, freedom from condemnation, guilt, sin, death, the old covenant, and blindness to the gospel, as well as freedom that gives access to the loving presence of God.


And by the way, in order to accurately read scripture, we must consider the totality of it. So, there are many other places referring to all three heads of the Trinity as God. If you would like, I can provide them. 


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@Shila
So god is a spirit, he appears to us as the Holy Spirit, he also appeared to us as Jesus. But the three are one.
Is this a question or a statement?

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@Mall
It's not necessarily my argument, but here is a really good commentary on John 1:1-5 which points out the Triune nature of God, in the Bible. 

 John 1:1–5
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Read More
In the beginning was the Word echoes the opening phrase of the book of Genesis, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” John will soon identify this Word as Jesus (John 1:14), but here he locates Jesus’ existence in eternity past with God. The term “the Word” (Gk. Logos) conveys the notion of divine self-expression or speech and has a rich OT background. God’s Word is effective: God speaks, and things come into being (Gen. 1:3, 9Ps. 33:6; 107:20Isa. 55:10–11), and by speech he relates personally to his people (e.g., Gen. 15:1). John also shows how this concept of “the Word” is superior to a Greek philosophical concept of “Word” (logos) as an impersonal principle of Reason that gave order to the universe. And the Word was with God indicates interpersonal relationship “with” God, but then and the Word was God affirms that this Word was also the same God who created the universe “in the beginning.” Here are the building blocks that go into the doctrine of the Trinity: the one true God consists of more than one person, they relate to each other, and they have always existed. From the Patristic period (Arius, c. A.D. 256–336) until the present day (Jehovah’s Witnesses), some have claimed that “the Word was God” merely identifies Jesus as a god rather than identifying Jesus as God, because the Greek word for God, Theos, is not preceded by a definite article. However, in Greek grammar, Colwell’s Rule indicates that the translation “a god” is not required, for lack of an article does not necessarily indicate indefiniteness (“a god”) but rather specifies that a given term (“God”) is the predicate nominative of a definite subject (“the Word”). This means that the context must determine the meaning of Theos here, and the context clearly indicates that this “God” that John is talking about (“the Word”) is the one true God who created all things (see also John 1:6John 1:12John 1:13John 1:18 for other examples of Theos without a definite article but clearly meaning “God”).
All things includes the whole universe, indicating that (except for God) everything that exists was created and that (except for God) nothing has existed eternally. Made through him follows the consistent pattern of Scripture in saying that God the Father carried out his creative works through the activity of the Son (cf. 1 Cor. 8:6Col. 1:16Heb. 1:2). This verse disproves any suggestion that the Word (or the Son, John 1:14) was created, for the Father would have had to do this by himself, and John says that nothing was created that way, for without him was not any thing made that was made.


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My two cents on abortion
If we can prove the fetus in the womb is a living human organism, then I see no justification for killing it. It is a human life.
Now it is situational I believe. For instance, there are different answers for different situations. 

The mother had sex and wants to kill it because it is simply a nuisance to her, then I don't think that is justified.
The mother had sex and used protection but still got pregnant and wants to kill it because she doesn't want it, then I don't think that's justified. 
The mother was raped and got pregnant, and wants to get rid of it, I don't think that is justified. 

My answer for all the situations is the same one, but with different explanations for each one. 
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