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1 | Filled with Holy Spirit or holy spirit? | Acts 21:4 | Ray | 2627 | ||
Hi, I am a capitalizer. I like to capitalize Deity and love the NASB because of that. Sometimes I disagree with them when they capitalize Spirit when it speaks of an angel. Here in Acts 21:4 I disagree because I think it was the spirit within them that was speaking. I know the Holy Spirit is a Person. I know also that He is Power. I also think that some searchers like the Jehovah's Witness people believe that the Holy Spirit is a power only. Just what would we be filled with as born-again believers? The Holy Spirit or the holy spirit? See Luke l:15; Luke 1:41; Luke 1:67; Luke 4:1; Acts 2:4; Acts 4:8; Acts 4:31; Acts 9:17; and Acts 13:9. |
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2 | Filled with Holy Spirit or holy spirit? | Acts 21:4 | Dacajunwolf | 2637 | ||
It has become customary to capitalize Deity and pronouns referring to Deity, but that is just a custom or tradition. The original Hebrew and Greek make no such distinctions (SOME Greek manuscripts are ALL capital letters!) and it is up to the translators' own knowledge of English grammar and usage when translating to decide which words are capitalized or not. As for Acts 21:4, I feel the use of the capital here is warranted and does indeed refer to the Holy Spirit of God since it agrees with the context of the entire chapter and book of Acts regarding the work of the Spirit. | ||||||
3 | Filled with Holy Spirit or holy spirit? | Acts 21:4 | Ray | 2646 | ||
Hi, Dacajunwolf. Welcome to the forum. If you are interested in knowing where I am coming from a little more, I had a conversation with JVH on Sunday, March 25, 2001. Go to Search on the left. I praise God that you are interested and will consider the use of capitalization in Scripture for it is important. It is important to show God the honor that is due Him. You are right about the use of all capitals in the Bible manuscripts. So really the translators have to decide what not to capitalize. Yet it certainly is not customary to capitalize Deity today. Look at the examples in your Christian book store. But, again, I am glad that you want to give Him honor. Looking at Acts 21:4 again, may I suggest to you that it reads, "they kept telling" rather than "the Spirit kept telling Paul through them." In other words, the Spirit leads us and we're used of Him. Compare this with Acts 11:28 where Agabus stood up and began to indicate by the Spirit... So I just think this is a place where we can test the spirits. 1 Thess 5:19 "Do not quench the spirit, do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form (or appearance) of evil." Later, Ray V.H. |
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