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THE REAL HOLY SPIRIT
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In Mormonism the "Holy Ghost" is a personage, or a god, but the
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"Holy Spirit" is an impersonal force. The Mormons refer to verses that
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the Holy Spirit is symbolized by oil, fire and water and show that
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these are "impersonal". The Bible refers to the Father and the Son as
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"bread of life", "living water" and other "impersonal" terms. Again,
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we must look at the context.
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In John 16:7, our Lord is placing His emphasis on His going away
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and the Holy Spirit's being sent by the Father to replace our Lord
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himself. This change (or replacement), Jesus says, would be beneficial
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for His disciples. AN IMPERSONAL FORCE COULD HARDLY IMPROVE ON THE
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PERSONAL PRESENCE OF OUR LORD, JESUS CHRIST!
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The word in Hebrew and the word in Greek for SPIRIT and GHOST both
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mean the same, "breath or wind" and the "translators" of the King
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James Bible noted that the Greek word denoted a neuter gender and
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mistranslated to be an "IT", but they did utilize the word Ghost and
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Spirit and interchanged them on many occassions.
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The words as translated are from only ONE word in Hebrew and ONE
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word in Greek - therefore there are NOT two words for SPIRIT and
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GHOST - only ONE. Now, let's look at this ONE entity called the HOLY
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SPIRIT. In John 16:13 and 14 we see our Lord, Jesus telling us this
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about the Holy Spirit, "HE shall not speak of HIMSELF ... HE shall
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glorify me ... HE shall receive of mine ....". NOTE that our LORD
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gives PERSONALITY to the Spirit. Otherwise our Lord would have used
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the term that Mormons use "IT".
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Jesus repeatedly (John 16:7-15) uses the MASCULINE PERSONAL
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pronoun "He" when referring to the Spirit. Jesus used the term clearly
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to tell us that the Spirit had personality and intimacy.
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Ananias was struck dead for lying to the HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 5:3).
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You cannot lie to an impersonal force! It would be like walking up to
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a window box fan, turning it on and facing its "force" and then
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telling lie after lie to it - IT WOULD NOT CARE THE SLIGHTEST, WOULD
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IT? Now, you look at Ananias and, if you are not a complete idiot, you
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would not repeat his behavior, now would you? The Holy Spirit and the
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Holy Ghost are not two different items mentioned in the Bible. There
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is only one entity referred to as both HOLY GHOST and HOLY SPIRIT.
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The Holy Spirit is a person. The Spirit may be "grieved" (Ephesians
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4:30) and "sinned against" by UNFORGIVABLE blasphemy (Mark 3:29). None
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of these things are possible for an "impersonal force".
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The Holy Ghost does things which only a person COULD do.
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He SPEAKS:
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"The Spirit said unto Philip, 'Go near'" (Acts 8:29)
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He STRIVES:
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"My Spirit shall not strive with man forever" (Genesis 6:3)
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- "The Spirit also helpeth our infirmity ... [and] MAKETH
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INTERCESSION for us." (Romans 8:26)
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He REVEALS, SEARCHES, and KNOWS:
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"But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit; for the Spirit
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searcheth all things ... the things of God knoweth no man but the
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Spirit of God" (I Corinthians 2:10,11).
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Other verses can be shown in which the Spirit IDENTIFIES with
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believers (Acts 15:28), The Spirit is ETERNAL (Hebrews 9:14),
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OMNIPRESENT (Psalm 139:7-10), DOES GOD'S WORK (Genesis 1:2), INVOLVED
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IN REGENERATION (John 3:8), participates in the RESURRECTION (Romans
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8:11).
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Paul identifies the Spirit as the speaker to Isaiah. Acts 28:25-26
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and Isaiah 6:8,9. An impersonal force does not counsel, speak, feel,
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or anything resembling personality. The HOLY SPIRIT is a person - one
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of the THREE ENTITIES of the ONE TRUE GOD.
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Computers For Christ - San Jose
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For more information see below:
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This file has been brought to you by the ministry of the;
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Southern Maryland Christian Information Service BBS, (SMCIS)
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(301) 862-3160 HST
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