The Holy Spirit is a Person, and is God

Posted on by September 16, 2015

     In my last post, I talked about the Trinity. That brought to mind the scriptural response below that I wrote to a dear sister in Christ. She is of the opinion that the Holy Spirit is simply an impersonal force or energy emanating from God. She doesn’t believe that The Spirit is a person. Perhaps there are readers of this post who are of like mind. If so, the following verses speak a different mindset. Let those who have an ear hear…  

 

  • Acts 5: 3, 4 (Holy Spirit is called God).

 

  • II Cor. 3: 17 (Spirit is called the Lord).

 

  • John 16: 13, 14 (Spirit referred to as “He,” which obviously makes the Spirit a person).

 

  • John 14: 16, 17 (Refers to the Spirit as “He” and “Him,” and the word “another” is translated from the Greek word allos, which means “another of the same kind.” In other words, Jesus intended to send someone like Himself—that is, someone Divine).

 

  • Matt. 28: 19 & 11 Cor. 13: 14 (Shows the three together, each having His own name, on the same level, and blessings coming from each: grace, love, and communion).

 

  • John 14: 26 & 15: 26 (Only a personality or being would have intelligence).

 

  • Acts 16: 7 & I Cor. 12: 11 (Only a person has a will).

 

  • Eph. 4: 30 (Only a person has feelings).

 

  • Acts 11: 12, Romans 8: 16 & I Tim. 4: 1 (Only a person speaks).

 

  • Romans 8: 26, 27 (Shows Someone interceding; also speaks of that Someone’s mind).

 

  • Acts 13: 2 (The Spirit refers to Himself as “Me”).

 

 

 

These verses, among many others, show that the Holy Spirit isn’t just a divine impersonal force, but is one of three equal, self-existent, eternal Persons—the other two, of course, being the Father and Son. The three are unified as God in purpose, mind, character, and substance. They are the one God manifested as three persons in what is often called the Godhead.

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