The Theology of the Holy Spirit Explained and Defended
Can we prove the Holy Spirit is a person and not just an “active force” as the Jehovah’s Witnesses claim? Can we prove that the …
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December 26, 2024
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Glad I’m doing this study! Was indoctrinated by jahovahs witnesses and it has been over a year finding truth and un-indoctrinating myself along with others helping me from my Bible based church 🎉
In Deut 9:10 it states that the 'ten commandments' were written by "God's finger" . Jesus stated that he healed people "By God's finger" too! see Luke 11:20. So surely this illustration reveals that just as a person's 'finger' is PART OF them, an extension of the power they have in their body! So the bible mostly speaks of the HS as "God's Spirit. It is His! It is not then a seperate 'person' that is 'God the Holy Spirit' a so called 'third part of a trinity'. This is completely FALSE and was Not taught till the Council of Constantinople in 381 CE.
I didn't know the Holy Spirit intercedes when we don't even know what to say in prayer. That's incredible.
First you say God is not flesh he is spirit then in the next breath you say God and his spirit are two different parts of the same being not good logic
I am turning into a Theology geek. I love reading about and studying Theology. So wild that this video popped up yesterday because our Thursday night men's group will be talking about The Holy Spirit this week. Thank you Mike for all of the teachings that you work so hard to put together. Very solid Biblical teaching.
Baptize is not washing with something.😁
Baptize is emarge and submit in one defination…😊
Confession: God gifted me a beautiful other half perfectly tailored for each other & ordained by God to be one flesh & I stay up at night drinking & watching porn
1. EUSEBIUS (C. 260—C. 340) was the Bishop of Caesarea and is known as “the Father of Church History.” Although he wrote prolifically, his most celebrated work is his Ecclesiastical History, a history of the Church from the Apostolic period until his own time. Today it is still the principal work on the history of the Church at that time. Eusebius quotes many verses in his writings, and Matthew 28:19 is one of them. He never quotes it as it appears today in modern Bibles, but always finishes the verse with the words “IN MY NAME.” For example, in Book III of his History, Chapter 5, Section 2, which is about the Jewish persecution of early Christians, we read:
But the rest of the apostles, who had been incessantly plotted against with a view to their destruction, and had been driven out of the land of Judea, went unto all nations to preach the Gospel, relying UPON THE POWER OF CHRIST, WHO HAD SAID TO THEM, “GO YE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS IN MY NAME.”
Again, in his Oration in Praise of Emperor Constantine, Chapter 16, Section 8, we read:
What king or prince in any age of the world, what philosopher, legislator or prophet, in civilized or barbarous lands, has attained so great a height of excellence, I say not after death, but while living still, and full of mighty power, as to fill the ears and tongues of all mankind with the praises of his name? Surely none save our only Saviour has done this, when, after his victory over death, he spoke the word to his followers, and fulfilled it by the event, saying to them, “GO YE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS IN MY NAME.”
Eusebius was present at the council of Nicaea and was involved in the debates about Arian teaching and whether Christ was God or a creation of God. We feel confident that if the manuscripts he had in front of him read “in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” he would never have quoted it as “in my name.” Thus, we believe that the earliest manuscripts read “IN MY NAME,” and that the phrase was enlarged to reflect the orthodox position as Trinitarian influence spread.
MATTHEW 28
17 AND WHEN THEY SAW HIM, THEY WORSHIPED HIM; BUT SOME DOUBTED.
18 AND JESUS CAME AND SPOKE UNTO THEM SAYING <> “ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH.
HAVING READ THAT JESUS SAID THE ABOVE VERSES TO HIS DISCIPLES; ARE YOU STUPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT JESUS “THE NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES” WOULD TELL THE DISCIPLES TO BAPTISE IN THE NAME OF AN IDOL OF THREE IN ONE.
NO! JESUS SAID BAPTISE IN “MY NAME” AND HIS DISCIPLES DID JUST THAT.YES! – THIS TRINITY IS COUNTERFEIT ROCK AND IS OF SIMON MAGUS, WHO, MAYBE HE WAS [THE FIRST SERIOUS ANTICHRIST TO CHALLENGE THE AUTHORITY OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS THE CHRIST THROUGH – SIMONISM.] AND OFFERED SIMON PETER MONEY TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT AND PEOPLE TO THIS DAY QEUE UP WITH THEIR MONEY TO RECEIVE THE SAME – BUT! THAT BLESSING THEY RECEIVE IS A SCAM.
ACTS 4
12 NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER: FOR THERE IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN, WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED.
REVELATION 21
6 AND HE SAID TO ME, “IT IS DONE! I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. TO THE THIRSTY I WILL GIVE FROM THE SPRING OF THE WATER OF LIFE WITHOUT PAYMENT.
Mike seems to equate hearing a speaking to be associated with a person . He is missing a vital component to understanding the style of communication Jesus was using inJohn 16:13.
He's how. 12 verses later 16:25 which would have been about 1 minute after speaking John 16:13 Quote. I will no longer speak to you in Proverbs. Jesus was using metaphors,figures of speech language to his disciples. It was not literal. So your reasoning and logic fails the test of other passages in the same chapter that shed light up on its context this would deny your claim of personhood. We all know the Bible 12:47 full of figures of speech.
If the holy Spirit is a person it would dominate the context of the Gospels and the Epistles.But it doesn't. What does dominate over and over abundantly is God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. In all the greetings of the Epistles. Grace Mercy and Peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ . The holy Spirit is left out of the greeting because it's not a person.
I found the lecture to be filled with opinion and personal interpretation . Scripture says that no man can see God face and live. So God has a face. He's a person
Scripture says 1 John that Jesus was seen heard looked upon. He's a person
You dont find that same description about the holy Spirit. Just the opposite. John 3.8 Jesus described the holy Spirit like the wind that you can not seen that comes and goes and is only heard.
That's not a person
The angel said to Mary describing the spirit as the power of the highest.
Trinity is confusion. God begetting a son means 2 gods. Christianity is pagan
Defended from Who?
Excellent teaching!!!!
6:49 Why does the bible call Eve & the Holy Spirit “helper”? Is The Holy Spirit the mother? Father, Son, Holy spirit (mother?)
You sound a lot like the blind man describing the elephant.. Soul, body, spirit, and these three are one, not three persons..
If we are in the image of God, wouldn't we be three persons?
You are soul, body, and spirit.. Are you three persons?
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: (soul, body, and spirit) My name name is in recognition of my fleshly body.. He comes again, and gathers us unto Himself.. The church/the body of Christ.. The church is a holy nation gathered together by one Holy Spirit, that is God..
The best proof that the Holy Spirit is a person comes from Proverbs, Wisdom of Solomon, and Sirach. It's Woman Wisdom.
John 1 v 3 Jesus created all things Col 1 16 17 they add the word other 3 times meaning Jesus creates all OTHER things. The word other is not in the Greek they can check their kingdom interlinear. Because in v 15 they believe Jesus was created and they mean this to be Michael the archangel but they will never come straight out and say Michael is Jesus.
Sorry I meant spirit directed organisation
JWS alter the baptismal formula They baptise in the name of the Father the Son and the spirit directed holly spirit. since they are so apposed to the person of the Holy Spirit.
Its amazing how easily people are fooled. The Trinity is a false doctrine.
A.B. Simpson’s Exhaustive 2 Volume Book on the Theology of the Holy Spirit: Power from on High walks you through every single verse and passage in the entire Bible mentioning Him or alluding to Him.
The Trinitarians are really Oneness no difference, When it comes to God they only believe in one existence, the Father and the son they teach is one existence, so that means one of them don't exist in the Trinity belief, It is a sly way to erase the fact that God does have a son, because salvation only comes through believing in the son of God.
If God is a spirit and the holy Spirit is a spirit, how many spirits is that? And does Jesus have a spirit of his own, Steven had a spirit, all people have an individual spirit.?
Amen! Bless the Word of God.
Yahweh our god ( Elohim) is One God a Unity, he revealed himself to Moses and Israel through MANIFESTATIONS of visions and revelations as Elohim the word and son and was manifest in Yahshua, so he is One god revealed through different manifestations, just as water is Liquid ,Vapor and Ice, different manifestations of One source.
Neuter? Really. Why lie this soon.
Tke spirit of truth( Alethea) thspirit of wisdom ( Sophiy) ..ot peace, Irene, of Grace( Charis) everywhere in the N.T where the Spirit is mentioned She is feminine.
Excellent. Thank you. You are the only person that has addressed and explained the use of pronouns in Greek, similarly in Spanish. The neuter pronoun can be used for a person too.
i like this point about holy sprit