What is the holy ghost?

Answer 1

The God head is made up of 3 separate and distinct beings, The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost.
The Nicene creed created by man in about the 4th century tried to explain the God head, and is commonly referred to as the "trinity"
(A link in source's is to read about this creed)
Frankly that explanation is confusing and not really correct in my view.
The Holy Ghost is the member of the God head that has not yet taken on a body, the Father and the Son both have physical bodies, the Holy Ghost is thus able to be the one who can be with each of us to give us guidance and direction in all that we do. If we live worthy of his association. He is the one who can whisper to us and we commonly call our conscience.
A Church that clearly teaches this doctrine is also in the source list. Yes LDS is a abbreviation for the real name of the church mostly referred to as Mormons.

Answer 2

The third member of the Godhead and, as the name implies, a personage of Spirit, not possessing a body of flesh and bones (D&C 130: 21-22). The Holy Ghost is manifested in every dispensation of the gospel since the beginning, being first made known to Adam (1 Ne. 10: 17-22; Moses 6: 51-68). The Holy Ghost is manifested to men on the earth both as the power of the Holy Ghost and as the gift of the Holy Ghost. The power can come upon one before baptism, and is the convincing witness that the gospel is true. It gives one a testimony of Jesus Christ and of his work and the work of his servants upon the earth. The gift can come only after proper and authorized baptism, and is conferred by the laying on of hands, as in Acts 8: 12-25 and Moroni 2: 1-3. The gift of the Holy Ghost is the right to have, whenever one is worthy, the companionship of the Holy Ghost. More powerful than that which is available before baptism, it acts as a cleansing agent to purify a person and sanctify him from all sin. Thus it is often spoken of as “fire” (Matt. 3: 11; 2 Ne. 31: 17; D&C 19: 31). The manifestation on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2) was the gift of the Holy Ghost that came upon the Twelve, without which they were not ready for their ministries to the world.
For some reason not fully explained in the scriptures, the Holy Ghost did not operate in the fulness among the Jews during the years of Jesus’ mortal sojourn (John 7: 39; John 16: 7). Statements to the effect that the Holy Ghost did not come until after Jesus was resurrected must of necessity refer to that particular dispensation only, for it is abundantly clear that the Holy Ghost was operative in earlier dispensations. Furthermore, it has reference only to the gift of the Holy Ghost not being present, since the power of the Holy Ghost was operative during the ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus; otherwise no one would have received a testimony of the truths that these men taught (cf. Matt. 16: 16-17; 1 Cor. 12: 3). When a person speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost that same power carries a conviction of the truth into the heart of the hearer (2 Ne. 33: 1). The Holy Ghost knows all things (D&C 35: 19) and can lead one to know of future events (2 Pet. 1: 21).
Other names that sometimes refer to the Holy Ghost are Holy Spirit, Spirit of god, Spirit of the Lord, Comforter, and Spirit.

Answer 3

The Christian God is conceived as a single Platonic universal that instantiates itself into three distinct beings: the Father (source of the Trinity), the Son (who exists as Potentiality, final cause, and supreme Platonic category), and the Holy Spirit (who exists as Actuality, and thus precedes from the Father to the Son).

The Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost in the King James Bible) is considered a personal being, self-aware and distinct. In Greek, the Holy Spirit is of the neuter gender, and so is described as "it" rather than "he" or "she." The Holy Spirit is the actualization of potential, and so energizes creation. In Christian theology, every material thing is like an electrical current. Once the final cause (actuality) and the initial cause (potentiality) both exist, the current flows, and the thing comes into being. Once the thing reaches complete actualization it reverts back to a purely potential state, and so ceases to exist. On a universal scale, the Son is the potential state of all matter, and the Holy Spirit is the energy, or actualization that brings all things into being.

The Holy Spirit is also the energy of action, or events. Any event that brings the universe closer to its final state is energized (driven foward) by the Holy Spirit.

In Roman Catholic theology, the Holy Spirit is also conceived as a Platonic Universal, and is the personification of the love that exists between the Father and the Son. For this reason, the Roman Catholic version of the Nicene Creed specifies that the Holy Spirit precedes from the Father and the Son, while the Orthodox version of the Nicene Creed specifies that the Holy Spirit precedes from the Father only.

Conceptually, the Christian Trinity is a metaphysical concept, and was used in the ancient Church to explain the interaction between dynamic and potential energy in producing Being. However, many modern Christians have little or no background in traditional Christian theology, and mistakenly explain the Trinity in simplistic terms. The Trinity is not three gods in one, it is not a self-contradiction, and it is not one god pretending to be three. The doctrine of the Trinity was developed in order to explain the Christian metaphysics, or the fundamental Christian understanding of Being, Change, and Existence. As such, it is not a contradiction. The three persons of the Trinity are One in the Platonic, universal sense, and are three in the individual, concrete sense.

Hope this helps....

Answer 4

THe Holy Ghost now called the Holy spirit is the third part of the blessed trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

Answer 5

Ghost = Spirit. As in the Spirit of God. The expression "Holy Ghost" is an Old King James rendition of Holy Spirit. Go here to see all those passages. http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=Holy+Ghost&qs_version=9

Answer 6

it is the holy spirit that is part of the Holy Trinity which consists of God Jesus and the Holy Ghost you recieve the Holy Ghost during Confirmation

Answer 7

one of the forms God uses to interact with mankind. The Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, is God

Answer 8

The holy spirit is not part of Christendoms trinity doctrine. It is God's active force or power that he uses to accomplish his purposes, anoint his servants and strenghen them in times of distress. When someone is filled with holy spirit, they are not filled with a person. Boldness in speaking the word of God, and being zealous in witnessing to others Bible truths;;these things give evidence that the person doing them has God's spirit.
The fruitage of God's holy spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness and self-control.
Gal. 5:22,23
When we display all these things, we truly have God's holy spirit.

Answer 9

the holy ghost is the spirit of Jesus. So when people say can you feel the holy ghost, they mean can you feel the spirit or passion of Jesus.

Answer 10

A being that is unseen and without sin. Good Angels

There Job is to deliver messages sent from Jesus. That is there only Job.