the holy spirit
- Why do we say that the Holy Spirit is a person?
The Holy Spirit is a person because he has the characteristics of personality.
In other words, it has intellect, emotions and will. A force or a power or an etheric entity or an insubstantial manifestation has no intellect, neither emotions nor will; But the Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit does have these three characteristics of personality.
- Intellect.
In 1 Corinthians 2: 10-11 it says: "But God revealed them to us by the Spirit"; when Paul is talking about "he revealed them to us" he refers to principles, words, knowledge; and a force does not reveal knowledge. In verse 6 it says: "Nevertheless, we speak wisdom"; and this wisdom from where ?, the wisdom that God gives, and who gives us that wisdom ?, verse 10: "But God revealed them to us by the Spirit, because the Spirit searches everything, even the deepest of God, "and let's look at verse 11, precisely speaking of the Spirit of God, then speak of the spirit of man, then look at the comparison: Spirit of God - spirit of man. Nobody doubts that you are a person, how could we doubt that the Holy Spirit is a person? if you even compare it with yourself; verse 11: "For who among men knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him?" So no one knew the things of God, but the Spirit of God. Here is a direct comparison of the Holy Spirit with that of man, in the sense that there is that ability of knowledge.
- Emotions.
In Ephesians 4:30 it says, "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption," another version says, "Do not grieve," can a force be grieved? -No, you can not sadden a force. A force disappears, a force acts, pushes, but does not become sad. In addition, a force ceases, but never becomes sad. A force goes out, it does not sadden.
In Romans 15:30 he speaks of the joy of the Spirit; and in James 4: 5 he talks about the Holy Spirit being jealous, he is jealous when he sees you sharing with the world.
- Will.
rro says: "Ahh, this is not my owner who is driving, so I do not start, no matter how hard he tries I do not move", -NO !, this is not true, the force can not make decisions, starts until with a thief. Instead, the Holy Spirit can use his intellect, emotion and will to decide what he wants to do.
On the exercise of the will of the Holy Spirit also Acts 16: 6-11 and Galatians 5:17. In Galatians 5:17 it speaks of us submitting ourselves to the will of the Holy Spirit, he says: "the flesh is against the Spirit, the Spirit is against the flesh, and these are against each other, so that you do not do what you want" , and then says verse 25: "let us walk by the Spirit", that is, under the direction of the Holy Spirit of God.
He can be obeyed, because he is a person, just as he can be disobeyed, but it would be better to obey him.
In Acts 10: 19-20 it says: "And while Paul was thinking of the vision, the Spirit said to him," Behold, three men are seeking you. "Get up, then, and go down and do not hesitate to go with them, because I have sent them " The Holy Spirit is treated as a person, the Spirit spoke with Peter and gave him an order. The Spirit intervenes in the thought of Peter just when he was thinking in vision, a force could never do something like that. Here you can notice a wisdom, an intelligence, that was manifested to Peter to understand the vision.
You can lie and try it. I do not think there is a force that one can lie to. In Acts 5: 3,4,9, verse 3 says: "And Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill your heart that you should lie to the Holy Spirit, and steal the price of the inheritance?"
You can resist him. In Acts 7:51 it says, "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit, as your fathers did, so do you." A force I can not resist in this way, for example, if you were 10 thousand meters high on a plane, you go as a pilot and suddenly says: "turn off the engine and resist the force"; for sure the force would bring down the plane and it would crash. The force is not resisted, however, a person can resist, say "No" or "I argue this or that."
He can be blasphemed. In Matthew 12:31 it says: "Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven them." In the end it is also to resist the work that he wants to do, that I recognize that Jesus is the Lord and that only in him is there salvation.
The Holy Spirit is a person because he relates on the same level with other people.
as people.
So if the Father and the Son are people, and the Holy Spirit is related to them, then he is also a person.
The Holy Spirit is a person because to refer to the Holy Spirit in the original Greek text a masculine pronoun is used.
"Neuma", which is the neutral noun that when applied to the Spirit are replaced by masculine gender pronouns. Instead of saying "it", they say "the". The Bible says of the Holy Spirit "this one" or "he", so he is talking about a person. One says: "Who is that?" Says the Bible. In John 16: 13-14 it says, "But when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak on his own account, but will speak of what he hears, and will tell you what things will be He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and will tell you. " Male pronouns are used.
