But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. — Romans 8:11.
The above scripture is often presented with the thought that it was “the Spirit” here who raised Jesus from the dead. Usually, this scripture is presented with the thought that it was the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit — all three — that raised Jesus from the dead.
Actually, many misread this verse as though it says that God’s spirit raised up Jesus from the dead; although we do believe it possible that the only true God (John 17:1,3) did indeed use his Holy Spirit in raising Jesus up from the dead, that is not what is said in this scripture. “Him who raised up Jesus” refers to the God and Father of Jesus, not back to “Spirit”. “Spirit” is depicted as belonging to the One who raised Jesus up from the dead.
Throughout Romans 8, "God" refers only to the Father of Jesus and is distinguished from Jesus, especially in Romans 8:3,34,39.
The Bible plainly tells us that it was the God and Father of Jesus, the only true God [Supreme Being] (John 17:1,3) that raised Jesus from the dead. — Acts 2:24,32,26; 3:15; 4:10; 10:40; 13:30,33,37; 17:31; Romans 4:24; 10:9; 1 Corinthians 6:14; 15:15; Galatians 1:1; Colossians 2:11,12; 1 Thessalonians 1:9,10; 1 Peter 1:21; 3:18.
ADDENDUM:
Some still insist that Romans 8:11 says the spirit raised Jesus from the dead. In Romans 8:11, him/he/his continuously refers to the God and Father of Jesus, and God's Spirit is distinguished from God, for the spirit belongs to him. Paul is speaking of God's spirit dwelling in the believer: "if the Spirit ... dwell in you".
He did NOT say that the Spirit raised Jesus from the dead, but he spoke of the Father as "him who raised Jesus up from the dead," and of the spirit that belongs to the God and Father of Jesus. The intervening phrase "Him that raised up Jesus from the dead" is the God and Father of Jesus. It is only by distorting what Paul wrote and then adding all the imaginative assumptions related to the triune dogma into what Paul said that one could claim that the any third person of an alleged triune God raised Jesus from the dead.
Paul did not say in this verse that the spirit of God is a person and that it was this spirit person that raised Jesus from the dead, nor did he or any Bible writer ever once present God's Holy Spirit as being a person of any alleged triune God. As yet we found no scripture that speaks of God's spirit as raising Jesus from the dead, but as we stated above, we believe it to be highly possible that God did use his Spirit in raising Jesus from the dead.
Regardless, even if Paul had said that God raised Jesus by means of His spirit, this does not give any reason to imagine, assume, add to, and read the trinitarian dogma into such a statement.
Related studies:
Did Jesus Raise Himself from the Dead?
Jesus’ Appearances in the Locked Room
Jesus Died a Human Being – Raised a Spirit Being
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