now holy spirit is guiding us in this world.around 2000 years a go when jesus return to his father.holy spirit is guiding us to reach god.he guiding christians.and i want to know more details about holy spirit.
2006-08-12 23:40:16 · 37 answers · asked by moon walker 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No one knows who the Holy Spirit is exactly, but he is his own entity. I am sure someday, it will be revealed.
2006-08-12 23:43:34 · answer #1 · answered by whozethere 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
At the Second ecumenical council of Nicea in 381 AD, the only concensus that could be reached concerning the Holy Spirit, was that it was "the giver of life" and that it "proceeds from the Father" and "is worshipped and glorified with the Father and the Son" and that the Holy Spirit spoke through the prophets. This is summed up in the expanded version of the Nicene Creed.
Later, in 589 AD in Toledo (not Ohio, but Spain) a church council changed the creed to say that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, to combat a heresy against the Trinity that the Holy Spirit was a lesser element of the Trio.
If you are interested, there is a more lengthy explanation as to why the Eastern and Western forms of Christianity disagree over whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father or the Father and the Son at the following website:
http://www.kencollins.com/why-07.htm
My personal opinion is that this is largely a question of linguistics and that there should be a mutually acceptable phrasing that might be adopted as dogma and that your interpretation of this nuance should not affect whether you help a little old lady across the street or burn down an orphanage this afternoon.
2006-08-20 09:51:27 · answer #2 · answered by Jimee77 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people say the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit is God's active power, or expression of his will. Others will say that the Holy Spirit is part of the God which is made up of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Still others say the Holy Spirit is God in a Triad of three persons being the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The general assumption is that it has something to do with God himself.
If you do not believe that Jesus is God, then you prolly believe that the Holy Spirit comes from the Father (Yahweh, or Jehovah, or LORD or whatever name you've learned). If you believe that Jesus is God, then the Holy Spirit is either a separate but equal person that is God, or that it is one of three parts of God. So, take your pick.
2006-08-20 09:35:20 · answer #3 · answered by Pint 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't believe the comments about the triple combination all in one transformergod. God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are three distinct and separate beings. Yet one in glory and purpose.
The Holy Ghost is the only member of the godhead without a body of flesh and bones. As such he can communicate directly with us spirit to spirit. He reveals truth to us. We can feel his presence when we are earnestly seeking after the truth. It is manifest by a feeling of calmness and peace and a moment of remarkable insight. The presence of the Holy spirit is not to be confused with the hyped up feeling of euphoria experienced by people at pentecostal churches. This is not an environment were the holy spirits presence can be felt.
2006-08-20 20:18:13 · answer #4 · answered by uselessadvice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God’s Active Force; Holy Spirit.
Not until the fourth century C.E. did the teaching that the holy spirit was a person and part of the “Godhead” become official church dogma.
Early church “fathers” did not so teach; Justin Martyr of the second century C.E. taught that the holy spirit was an ‘influence or mode of operation of the Deity’; Hippolytus likewise ascribed no personality to the holy spirit.
The Scriptures themselves unite to show that God’s holy spirit is not a person but is God’s active force by which he accomplishes his purpose and executes his will.
It may first be noted that the words “in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” (KJ) found in older translations at 1 John 5:7 are actually spurious additions to the original text.
A footnote in The Jerusalem Bible, a Catholic translation, says that these words are “not in any of the early Greek MSS [manuscripts], or any of the early translations, or in the best MSS of the Vulg[ate] itself.”
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, by Bruce Metzger (1975, pp. 716-718), traces in detail the history of the spurious passage.
It states that the passage is first found in a treatise entitled Liber Apologeticus, of the fourth century, and that it appears in Old Latin and Vulgate manuscripts of the Scriptures, beginning in the sixth century.
Modern translations as a whole, both Catholic and Protestant, do not include them in the main body of the text, because of recognizing their spurious nature.
2006-08-20 17:05:32 · answer #5 · answered by Nigelg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will have realised by now after trying to read these replies (and trying to understand them) that the whole concept of God and Jesus and the Holy Ghost all being one is so ridiculous that Christianity is the most unbelievable religion out of all the other unbelievable religions!
Yes I am an atheist, but I do have some respect for a few religions and can understand why some people require to believe that there is a God!
But this Christian religion beggers belief, or even any trace of logic, there is no other religion that believes that Jesus was and is God, there is no other religion that believes that Jesus was his own Son, and on top of all that he is also the Holy Ghost!
I suggest you have a look at a few other religions, then when you have browsed through a few more you will perhaps get to understand why some people need a religion, but above all come to realise that it is all a complete load of tosh!
Good luck in your quest!
2006-08-18 08:33:47 · answer #6 · answered by budding author 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read the book "Give the Holy Spirit a Chance"
When Jesus left, he gave us the Holy Spirit to guide us in the wisdom to live as our Father wants us to live.
2006-08-19 23:46:02 · answer #7 · answered by nicedayrus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy spirit is still with God, just as God's word is back with God. While God's Word Jesus, was on the Earth for those 33 years, you didn't hear of any man that could hear the word of God, because His word was among us.
God was not speaking at that time, because His Word was Jesus. The very same word that was walking through the garden of eden speaking to Adam and Eve. The very same word that came to Moses as the burning bush and issued the 10 commandments. Since Jesus died and arose again, we are under God's grace here on earth. We carry God Almighty, within our hearts and souls. That is what is guiding us to the Lord. Some can't hear His voice. Hopefully they will before they die.
2006-08-12 23:51:46 · answer #8 · answered by classyjazzcreations 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Spirit is the one who lives in us (Christians) after accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior. The Holy Spirit guides us on the right paths and tries to show us what we should or shouldn't do. And yes, when we do what is right we get a closer relationship with God.
2006-08-12 23:48:51 · answer #9 · answered by OnFireForJesus! 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As a Muslim i have tried to understand this too. We believe in only one God, but I think when the Christians refer to the holy spirit they mean their concinse, the ability to know right from wrong, the feeling the get when they pray or witness the miracles of God. It seems like the describe an emotion more than a person.
2006-08-20 08:50:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have studied the Bible for 25 years and Holy spirit is God's active force an extension of himself. Only the Jehovah's Witnesses receive this holy spirit. Check your bible and you will find out. Look in ACTS, you will see that his disciples receive this, and so the followers of today''the true witnesses '', not Christians, Muslims, Jews or any other religion because they do not practise what God and Jesus told them they should do.
Gloria
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2006-08-16 10:52:42 · answer #11 · answered by gloriashealth@btinternet.com 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋