The Biblical Holy Spirit

                                 The Biblical Holy Spirit

The Trinity is considered an essential doctrine in the institutional church. To challenge it remotely, put one's salvation into question. Interestingly, nowhere in scripture, says it's essential. It is true because something is not explicitly mentioned in the text doesn't mean the concept isn't there. However, I will demonstrate several concerning lines of evidence about the Holy Spirit below.


Holy Spirit doesn't have a proper name. The Father is called Yahweh, The Son is called Jesus/Yeshua.


The Holy Spirit is never called Lord.


The Holy Spirit is never referred to as the Almighty


There is no commandment for saints to worship, pray to, and give thanks to the Holy Spirit 

 

The Jerusalem Council didn't dispute the Trinity/ Personhood of God at all in Acts 15:1-31. Yet, it's disputed 300 years later to the point of anathemas and excommunications occurring within the Church.

 

Jesus never taught a Trinity, redefined the Shema, explained the Personhood within the Godhead. The terms God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, Eternally Begotten, One God/Three Persons, God manifested in the Flesh , God came down (descended) and took on Flesh, the God man, incarnation, and the hypostatic union are not in the Bible.



The Father testifies for the Son as a witness. No mention of the Holy Spirit.

John 5:37, 8:18; 1 John 5:9


 

The Father knows the Day and the Hour of the End of the Age. Jesus and the angels do not know. The Holy Spirit is not even mentioned at all.

Matthew 24:36

 


The Holy Spirit is not mentioned with Jesus, the Father, and the angels about confession/shame.

Luke 9:26.

 


All throughout Revelation, the Father and Son has their own respective thrones. The Holy Spirit doesn't have a throne. Revelation 3:21, 4:2, 22:3; Matthew 19:28, 25:31; Daniel 7:9.

 


The Holy Spirit is not included as being part of the New Covenant Temple

Revelation 21:22.




The spirit belongs to God declaring ownership. God owns the Spirit. We never see the following terms: The Spirit’s Father, The Spirit’s Son, The Spirit’s God.

Num. 11:29; Isa. 30:1; 44:3; 59:21; Ezek. 36:27; 37:14; 39:29; Joel 2:28, 29; Zech. 4:6; Matt. 12:18; and Acts 2:17-18, Ps. 51:11, Neh. 9:30, 1 Thess. 4:8, Isa. 63:11, John 16:13.

 



The Holy Spirit is told, directed, and sent by Jesus and Yahweh. It has no will of its own. 


Sent by Yahweh - John 3:34, 14:26; Neh. 9:20; Acts 5:32, 15:8; Rom. 5:5; 1 Cor. 2:12; 2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5; 1 Thess. 4:8; 1 John 3:24 and 4:13. 

 

Sent by Jesus- John 15:26; 16:7; Acts 2:33; Titus 3:6.

 


The Holy Spirit never greets the churches in the New Testament

Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:2-3; 2 Cor. 1:1-2; Eph. 1:1-2; Phil. 1:1-2; Gal. 1:2-3; Colossians 1:2; 1 Thessalonians 1:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:1-2; 1 Timothy 1:2; 2 Timothy 2:2; Titus 1:4; James 1:1; Philemon 1:1-3; 2 Peter 1:1-2; Jude 1:1; 1 John 1:3; 2 John 1-3, Revelation 1:1-3.

 


Right doctrine is also associated with having the Father and Son. No mention of the Holy Spirit.

2 John 1:9.

 

 

The Antichrist denies the Father and Son. No mention of the Holy Spirit.

1 John 2:22-23.

 


Jesus never prays or worships the Holy Spirit. He never asks for its guidance or its will. There is no commandment of it.

John 5:19, 30; 6:38; 7:16; 8:16, 28, 29; 12:49, 50.

 

Jesus can forgive, but the Holy Spirit doesn't.

Matt. 12:31-32; Mark 3:28-29; Luke 12:10. If the doctrine of the Trinity is correct “1 God in 3 Persons,” then how can you blaspheme one of the “Persons” of the Godhead and be forgiven, but not blaspheme another “Person” of that same Godhead and not be forgiven?



The Holy Spirit is called the Finger of God.

Matthew 12:28, Luke 11:20. That doesn't sound like a person at all.

 


The Father and Son have an exclusive relationship. No mention of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22; John 3:35, 5:36, 7:29, 10:15, 10:38, 13:3, 14:10-11,14:20, 17:2.



Personification doesn't equal Personhood

Critics tend to apply personhood status on the Holy Spirit because it is called "The Comforter" and that it groans when we sin. However, personification is used very frequently in Scripture. See below.

Proverbs 1:20 English Standard Version
Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;

Isaiah 24:23 English Standard Version
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion….

Isaiah 55:12 English Standard Version 12 “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Luke 19:40
English Standard Version
40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

Romans 7:11
English Standard Version
11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.


Neuter Gender and Capitalization

In Greek, the word “spirit” is neuter gender and when pronouns are used in reference to the spirit, they should be translated without gender (as in the KJV). Pretty frequently, masculine and feminine Greek pronouns are translated in English as “it” or “which.” In the Bible, neuter words in Greek are almost never translated into English using personal pronouns (he, she, they, you). Unfortunately, we find this exception when it is referring to the spirit. This is a red flag. Neuter nouns need impersonal pronouns. It is an inescapable fact. The holy spirit is a neuter noun in the Greek. This is translator bias.

In regards to capitalization, the Greek New Testament was written with all capital letters without punctuation and spacing between words. Capitalization is based on the context and the translator's discretion. The Holy Spirit is capitalized out of respect for God. Not because it's a person.



Names Together Do Not Make One God

Matthew 28:19 English Standard Version 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,


Ezekiel 14:14 English Standard Version 14 even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.


Daniel 1:6-7 English Standard Version 6 Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah. 7 And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.


Zechariah 6:10 English Standard Version 10 “Take from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon, and go the same day to the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah.


Revelation 16:13 English Standard Version 13 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.


 

 


 

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