Why isnt the Holy Spirit recoginized as much as Jesus and the Father?

Question

Please help, this is for religion homework, I don't need any arguments against it please I just need an answer!

Answer 1

I think that it may be because we, in our scientific age, do not like to admit that we believe in miracles (it is embarrassing). Since it is God the Holy Spirit that makes miracles, we tend not to talk about him.

I also suspect that many people do not like to talk about the Holy Spirit because the Spirit is the part of God that indwells every believer; to talk about the Holy Spirit is to talk about your conscience. If people are living a life apart from God, committing some sin, then they do not want to get too close to God or to think about their conscience.

Answer 2

This sounds like a trick question. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit are all the same. One cannot be thought of without the other two. The three make up the Holy Trinity.

Out of the three, the most difficult to grasp is the concept of the Holy Spirit because it deals with the resurrection of Jesus. I mean, how can God be resurrected because isn't God immortal? How can anyone be resurrected?? It is so confusing! I can see why the Holy Spirit gets left out!

The other aspect is that Jesus's life and teachings are the basis of Christianity, so the emphasis always seems more on God and Jesus rather than on the Holy Spirit. However, as noted earlier, any reference to either of the three is a reference to all three.

Answer 3

While not all Christians even believe in a Trinity, for those who do, the answer relates most likely to our ability to indentify with Jesus or with the Creator as a "father" to us. We understand another person or a parent but a spirit without a body for us to visualize is harder to establish a contact with and harder to understand.

God is the focus of all worship and while pictures aren't the rule, we understand a parent so well that we don't need one, although many picture a bearded patriarch type person (or occasionally a matriarch.) Visual representations of Jesus are common although many do not resemble his ethnic group in the slightest. Each society makes a Jesus who looks like them.

The only image we have of the Holy Spirit is the dove symbol and the scriptures do not make any assertion that the Spirit actually is a dove, only an instance of speaking from the form of one.

There may be an element of sexism in the seemingly lower status of the Holy Spirit compared to the Father and the Son. The words in Hebrew and Greek used for Holy Spirit are feminine, and the primary mission, to be a comforter, may be subconsciously seen as too female in nature. The idea of a God who is even partly female threatens some, particularly in a male-dominated church.

Another reason may be scriptural since there are far fewer citations for Holy Spirit than for God, Father, Son, or Jesus.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

While Jesus and the Father are assumed to have had some type of body at one time or another, the Holy spirit can't be seen. It is a feeling, it is a warm glow, it is a voice in your body that tells you when you are doing right and when you are doing wrong. It brings comfort and a feeling of peace to those who listen to it.

While many people feel they can talk to Jesus and the Father either through thought or prayer and sometimes just yelling at them, they often feel that the Holy Spirit is to guide us by thought and feelings. Not many, if any religions teach us to pray to the Holy Spirit while they do teach us to pray to Jesus and the Father.

I think that it is mainly because we have all been taught that the Holy Spirit is just that, A Spirit........although I personally have always felt it was one of the most important parts of my spiritual growth, most people do not feel the same.

I hope I have helped you in some way.

Answer 5

Jesus and the Father are recognisable humanlike forms, whereas the Holy Spirit is a nebulous, intangable form, more difficult to relate from a personal perspective.

Answer 6

Because its representation is not human. The holy spirit is usually represented by a dove, whereas Jesus and the Father are human figures.

Answer 7

In the light of Christians, the holy spirit, Jesus, and God is the same thing. You may or may not have heard of the "holy trinity."

Answer 8

maybe it is used to describe the cause of a miracle when, in actuality, a miracle cannot be described.

"Father" and "Son" are more like definitions rather than descriptions.