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Who Is The Holy Spirit?
His Person And Nature
Connecting the Dots Series
1/19/2022
“From the Bible, we know that the source of life is the Holy Spirit.
Paul said that
in God we live, move, and have our being (Acts 17:28).
Even a pagan cannot
breathe without the power of the Holy Spirit.
Although the Bible speaks of Christ
being conceived in the womb of Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit, in a
more general sense no one is conceived in the womb except by the Holy Spirit.”
-R.C.
Sproul1
Why the “Who” Matters
Jehovah’s Witnesses
(Kingdom Hall, 11.4 miles, 15 minutes away)
- JW’s believe the trinity is a lie2 and that the Holy Spirit is an active force, controlled and used
for God’s purposes.3
Mormons / Latter Day Saints (LDS) / Reorganized Latter Day Saints (RLDS)
(Community of Christ, 7.8 miles, 11 minutes away)
- Mormons believe the trinity cannot exist without God being a monstrosity.4
The HS is a spiritchild of God the Father,5 who can be omnipresent because he has not yet taken a body to
himself.6
The Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost are considered to be separate7 “personage[s] of
spirit.”8
1
Sproul, 178.
2
“Satan is the originator of the trinity doctrine” (Let God Be True, 101)
The JW view is expressed in there writings here: “[He] is a controlled force that…accomplish[es] a
variety of [God’s] purposes,” (Should You Believe in the Trinity?, 20) “and executes his will” (Aid to Bible
Understanding, Brooklyn: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1969, 1971, 1543).
He is “likened to electricity, a
force that can be adapted to perform a great variety of operations” (Should You Believe in the Trinity?, 20).
3
“…All are to be crammed into one God, according to sectarianism.
It would make the biggest God in all
the world.
He would be a wonderfully big God—he would be a giant or a monster.”
(Teachings of the Prophet
Joseph Smith, 372).
4
5
James E. Talmage, The Articles of Faith, 48.
6
“[He is] waiting to take to himself a body as the Saviour did or as the gods before them took bodies”
(Joseph Smith, April 6, 1843; see Discourses on the Holy Ghost compiled by N.B.
Lundwall, 73).
7
John A. Widtsoe, Evidences and Reconciliation, 76.
8
Doctrines and Covenants 130:22.
J.C. Andrews
The Person and Nature of the HS 1
Health, Wealth, and Prosperity Gospel / New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)
(International House of Prayer (IHOP), 47.6 miles, 56 minutes)
- Some Pentecostal movements can, despite claiming orthodox views of the Holy Spirit, treat
Him as a tool or a means to an end.9
By faith, one is saved by God yet it is by works one is
“baptized in the Spirit” and by further works one may be “filled with the Spirit.”
The Deity of the Holy Spirit
- “God” is used interchangeably with Holy Spirit10
- The Holy Spirit “possesses the attributes or qualities of God”11
- God’s Omniscience (1 Cor 2:10-13; Jn 16:13)
- God’s Omnipresence (Ps 139:7; Jn 14:17)
- God’s Omnipotence (Jb 33:4; Zech 4:6; Lk 1:35; Rm 15:19)
- God’s Holiness (Mt 12:32)
- God’s Eternality (Heb 1:10-12; 9:14)12
- The Holy Spirit does the works of God
- Creation (Gn 1:2; Jb 26:13)
9
An excellent and clear example of this mentality is found in the teachings of Jenn Johnson (Pastor Bill
Johnson’s wife) from the stage of IHOP-KC.
Here are three separate quotes from three separate messages she
delivered:
1.) -“The Holy Spirit to me is like the genie from Aladdin… It’s who he is to me and he’s funny and he’s
sneaky.
He’s silly.
He’s wonderful…”
2.) - “I view the HS like the genie from Aladdin…and he’s blue.
And he’s funny.
And he’s sneaky.
And he’s
courageous and he’s everywhere and he’s wonderful…’
3.) - “And I view him like the genie from Aladdin.
I don’t where in my life that kinda just came up, maybe
like when I was ten.
Because he’s there, you know.
He’s the helper and he’s just always supportive and
comforting and he’s just fun…”
10
See Acts 5:1-4 and 1 Corinthians 3:16-20 for examples of Peter and Paul viewing the Holy Spirit as God.
11
Erickson, 782.
12
“In Hebrews 9:14 he is spoken of as ‘the eternal Spirit’ through whom Jesus offered himself up.
Only
God, however, is eternal (Heb.
1:10-12), all creatures being temporal.
So the Holy Spirit must be God.”
(Erickson,
783)
J.C. Andrews
The Person and Nature of the HS 2
- Preservation (Ps 104:30)
- Salvation (Jn 3:5-8; Tt 3:5; Rm 8:11)
- The Holy Spirit is spoken of being equal with God the Father and God the Son
- In Jesus’s words (Mt 12:31-32;13 28:19)
- In Paul’s writing (1 Cor 12:4-6; 2 Cor 13:14)
- In Peter’s writing (1 Pt 1:2)
The Personhood of the Holy Spirit
- The New Testament authors ascribed personhood to the Holy Spirit through the use of a
masculine personal pronoun.14
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