In christianity,Who was the holy spirit/ghost before he died?

Question

to become a ghost he must have lived then died??

Answer 1

Ghost and Spirit are translated from the same Greek word "Numa" It's meaning doesn't indicate that this is the ghost of a died person, but more of a Spiritual Entity. Jim

Answer 2

The Holy Spirit is sometimes called the holy ghost because the spirit can not physically be seen by the human eye. The Holy spirit is God's spirit that is in the world. The spirit is here on the earth so that evil does not engage the world entirely. In fact, the spirit is here is protect and guide us. It also gives those of us who which to believe, a conscience. It is also part of the trinity which is three in one. The father, the son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit. All are a part of God so they connect back to one thing. For example, there are two hands, two feet, two ears but they all connect back to parts on one person's body. They are not separated from the one.

Answer 3

Your question:

In Christianity,Who was the holy spirit/ghost before he died?
to become a ghost he must have lived then died??

confuses me.

From what I know about the Holy Spirit, He is God and thereby never had a beginning or an ending.

He also lives in me.

I have never spoken in tongues,

AS

some would have you to believe as the evidence of having been infilled with the Holy Spirit,

Nor have I ever danced either.

BUT

I have God living in me.

Answer 4

There is no "holy ghost". 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. 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.

Answer 5

There is no "holy ghost" as such. What they are referring to is God's HOLY SPIRIT which is not a person at all but God's active force. The term "holy GHOST" was coined to back up the teaching that the Holy Spirit was a separate person and part of the Trinity which claims God The Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are all one and co-equal, which defies God's title of "Almighty" He can't very well be co-equal with anyone and still be almighty right?

Answer 6

Reverse antromorphism. A human is a spirit that becomes a ghost when the flesh or body dies. The Holy Spirit is eternally God [uncreated] and never inhabited an unique body of His own.

Answer 7

We are never told who the Holy Ghost was or is. He is the third member of the Godhead and is a personage of spirit. He has not received his mortal body. He needs to be a personage of spirit in order to fulfill his calling as a testifier of truth and a comforter as promised by Jesus. It is my opinion that the position of Holy Ghost can be filled by more than one person. As one is sent down to earth to receive a body, another can take his place in the Godhead. Perhaps in the millenium, when Christ is among us again, the Holy Ghost won't be needed as he is now and will be able to receive his body and go through the mortal process as we have.
Food for thought.

Answer 8

No. God is a spirit. This is one way He is manifested. We are a three part being. We are flesh, soul (mind, will, emotion), and spirit. Death only releases the soul and spirit. So God didn't die. He has always been. Jesus died (His body), but the Holy Ghost, or as some say Holy Spirit was the power that raised Him to life again.

Answer 9

The holy spirit is simply the divine awareness one receives when he becomes cognizant of higher realities and the movement of the laws, the people saying the holy ghost is a man or is a being that wasn't in human form are "carnal" and only capable of expressing the oracles of God outwardly.

Peace

Aza

Answer 10

In Christianity the Holy Spirit still represents God.

http://www.apostolic.net/biblicalstudies/trinoneness.htm

The above website is a site that talks about the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit and how they relate to each other and who they represent.