Y is d Holy spirit called the Holy Ghost.?

Answer 1

The Old Testament was originally written mostly in Hebrew.

The New Testament was originally written in Greek.

The Third Person of the Holy Trinity, now commonly called in English "the Holy Spirit," is in Hebrew: רוח הקודש or Ruah haqodesh
And is in Greek: το Άγιο Πνεύμα

These Hebrew and Greek words have been translated into English as both the "Holy Ghost" and "Holy Spirit."

It was originally translated as "Holy Ghost" but later translations use a more spiritual "Holy Spirit."

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The interchangable terms Holy Spirit/ Holy Ghost appears to have occured from the King James Bible translation - where the Holy Spirit is called the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, in Trinitarian Christian belief, is God, the third Person of the Holy Trinity; the word "Spirit" commonly translates the Greek New Testament word pneuma, which is usually translated to mean "breath".

Answer 3

It is not , a spirit can be anything, Satan is a spirit, but when you say holy ghost you know exactly who it is refering to, the only one that has died and came back.

Answer 4

because it cannot be seen and it overtakes you unaware.

Acts 2:1-4
The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost

1)When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
2)Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3)They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
4)All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Answer 5

ghost and spirit are some what synonomous therefore they are subjective to Synecdoche and metynomy(i.e. we call a cigarette a smoke bcuz it gives of smoke) ghost and spirit are not the same thing but sense a spirit takes on a ghost like type form when visible people use the word interchangably

Answer 6

God bless the Holy spirit is the ghost of the testator Jesus Christ in which is the spirit of the Most High God that was put in Jesus by God his Father

Answer 7

Ghost and spirit mean the same thing so the words are used interchangeably.

Answer 8

cause a ghost and spirit is the same. duh

but actually if u look at it from a technical point of veiw
a spirit usually sounds as though it is alive
while a ghost sounds as though it is dead

maybe they trying to say God is neither dead nor alive

or

he lives within us when we are both alive and dead.

Answer 9

Basically, because He is *invisible.*

1Timothy 1:17 Now, to the King of eternity, incorruptible, *invisible,* the only true God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

2Corinthians 3:17 Now YHWH is The Spirit and where the Spirit of YHWH is, there is freedom.

Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Answer 10

Sometimes ghost and spirit are used interchangeably... as in He gave up the ghost.