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