
                      THE REAL HOLY SPIRIT

     In Mormonism the "Holy Ghost" is a personage, or a god, but 
the "Holy Spirit" is an impersonal force. The Mormons refer to 
verses that the Holy Spirit is symbolized by  oil, fire and water 
and show that these are "impersonal". The Bible refers to the 
Father and the Son as "bread of life", "living water" and other 
"impersonal" terms. Again, we must look at the context. 
     In John 16:7, our Lord is placing His emphasis on His going 
away and the Holy Spirit's being sent by the Father to replace 
our Lord himself. This change (or replacement), Jesus says, would 
be beneficial for His disciples. AN IMPERSONAL FORCE COULD HARDLY 
IMPROVE ON THE PERSONAL PRESENCE OF OUR LORD, JESUS CHRIST!
     The word in Hebrew and the word in Greek for SPIRIT and 
GHOST both mean the same, "breath or wind" and the "translators" 
of the King James Bible noted that the Greek word denoted a 
neuter gender and mistranslated to be an "IT", but they did 
utilize the word Ghost and Spirit and interchanged them on many 
occassions. 
     The words as translated are from only ONE word in Hebrew and 
ONE word in Greek - therefore there are NOT two words for  SPIRIT 
and GHOST - only ONE. Now, let's look at this ONE entity called 
the HOLY SPIRIT. In John 16:13 and 14 we see our Lord, Jesus 
telling us this about the Holy Spirit, "HE shall not speak of 
HIMSELF ... HE shall glorify me ... HE shall receive of mine 
....". NOTE that our LORD  gives PERSONALITY to the Spirit. 
Otherwise our Lord would have used the term that Mormons use 
"IT". 
     Jesus repeatedly (John  16:7-15) uses the MASCULINE PERSONAL 
pronoun "He" when referring to the Spirit. Jesus used the term 
clearly to tell us that the Spirit had personality and intimacy.
     Ananias was struck dead for lying to the HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 
5:3). You cannot lie to an impersonal force! It would be like 
walking up to a window box fan, turning it on and facing its 
"force" and then telling lie after lie to it  - IT WOULD NOT CARE 
THE SLIGHTEST, WOULD IT? Now, you look at Ananias and, if you are 
not a complete idiot, you would not repeat his behavior, now 
would you? The Holy Spirit and the Holy Ghost are not two 
different items mentioned in the Bible. There is only one entity 
referred to as both HOLY GHOST and HOLY SPIRIT.
     The Holy Spirit is a person. The Spirit may be "grieved" 
(Ephesians 4:30) and "sinned against" by UNFORGIVABLE blasphemy 
(Mark 3:29). None of these things are possible for an "impersonal 
force".

The  Holy Ghost does things which only a person COULD do.

He  SPEAKS:
     
     "The Spirit said unto Philip, 'Go near'" (Acts 8:29)

He STRIVES:

     "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever" (Genesis 6:3) 
- "The  Spirit also helpeth our infirmity ... [and] MAKETH 
INTERCESSION for us." (Romans 8:26)

He REVEALS, SEARCHES, and KNOWS:

     "But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit; for the 
Spirit searcheth all things ... the things of God knoweth no man 
but the Spirit of God" (I Corinthians 2:10,11).

     Other verses can be shown in which the Spirit IDENTIFIES 
with believers (Acts 15:28), The Spirit is ETERNAL (Hebrews 
9:14), OMNIPRESENT (Psalm 139:7-10), DOES GOD'S WORK (Genesis 
1:2), INVOLVED IN REGENERATION (John 3:8), participates in the 
RESURRECTION (Romans 8:11).
     Paul identifies the Spirit as the speaker to Isaiah. Acts 
28:25-26 and Isaiah 6:8,9. An impersonal force does not counsel, 
speak, feel, or anything resembling personality. The HOLY SPIRIT 
is a person - one of the THREE ENTITIES of the ONE TRUE GOD.

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