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NASB | Luke 11:13 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 11:13 "If you, then, being evil [that is, sinful by nature], know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him!" |
Bible Question:
In considering Romans 5:5, in my personal copy I have penciled in a lower case "holy spirit". I do this because I think of the holy spirit as the gift of God which is given to us. I compare the verse with Acts 11:16, "And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, 'John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the *holy *spirit'. 17 If God therefore gave to them the same gift as He gave to us..." I would like some comments from the forum members as I continue to consider the gift of "holy spirit". From the heart, Ray |
Bible Answer: Ray, I don't know how welcome my comments will be but, since you asked, I'm going to share them. Frankly, I'm puzzled by your use of the lower case letters when refering to the 3rd member of the Trinity. Romans 8:9-10 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (NKJ) These verses plainly state that if the Holy Spirit is in you, Christ is in you. Do you use lower case letters to refer to Christ? Was Christ not a gift as well? I guess what I really want to know is, why do you feel it necessary to change the spelling? What is it you are accomplishing through it? Why does this awesome Gift from God need to be reduced to our level? Hoping for more insight from you. In Him, Karen |