Bible Question:
Hi Jeff12, Are you two speaking of the same Person? What do you think we have to know about it? From the heart,Ray |
Bible Answer: I use the capitalized "H" and "S" for God who is Holy and who is Spirit. The lowercase "h" and "s" are for the holy spirit He gave to us when we first believed (born again). The KJV does it this way but sometimes they are not consistent. From John 16:13 we can derive that the holy spirit is a "connection" so to speak. "But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." (NIV) It gets its information from God and relays it to us. This "holy spirit" given by God is synonymous with many things Scripturally: truth, power. You might take a look at the word "spirit" in the concordance and see what you come up with. The word spirit is used of devil spirits too but I think you'll see the difference real quick. Essentially we need to know how "our" holy spirit works in us and how we can tap into its power. You can read through out the Bible where the spirit of God worked in His people but that doesn't mean the spirit will work the same way in us. For example, with me it's usually through feeling but at rare times it's a "still small voice" but I'm not going to put this spirit in a box about how it's going to work in me. That's God's job. Not mine. This holy spirit field is one of the most mis-understood aspects of the Scriptures. We have people saying that the manifestations of the spirit listed in I Cor 12:8 - 10 died with the Apostles (original) and yet we have people speaking in tongues today. So first we need the correct doctrine, know from the Bible how it worked in others, and then learn how it works in us. |