What do you is your conception of the Holy Spirit? person or spirit? Power or part of the trinity?

Question

In the Catholic faith we are taught that the trinity is God the father, Jesus is the son and the Holy Spirit. I want to hear what readers' ideas and thoughts are. What have your experiences been.

Answer 1

No one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now God's Spirit, who reveals God, makes known to us Christ, his Word, his living Utterance, but the Spirit does not speak of himself. The Spirit who has spoken through the prophets makes us hear the Father's Word, but we do not hear the Spirit himself. We know him only in the movement by which he reveals the Word to us and disposes us to welcome him in faith. The Spirit of truth who "unveils" Christ to us will not speak on his own. Such properly divine self-effacement explains why "the world cannot receive [him], because it neither sees him nor knows him, while those who believe in Christ know the Spirit because he dwells with them.

The Church, a communion living in the faith of the apostles which she transmits, is the place where we know the Holy Spirit:

- in the Scriptures he inspired;

- in the Tradition, to which the Church Fathers are always timely witnesses;

- in the Church's Magisterium, which he assists;

- in the sacramental liturgy, through its words and symbols, in which the Holy Spirit puts us into communion with Christ;

- in prayer, wherein he intercedes for us;

- in the charisms and ministries by which the Church is built up;

- in the signs of apostolic and missionary life;

- in the witness of saints through whom he manifests his holiness and continues the work of salvation

Answer 2

I believe the Holy Ghost is a spirit (doesn't have a body) and is part of the Godhead, I also believe that it is a physically (based on whatever physicality a spirit has) separate being from God the Father and Jesus Christ.

My personal experiences with the Holy Ghost have been some of the most important and sacred experiences in my life because he is the direct communicator for God, or the medium through which God guides us and answers our prayers. He speaks to my heart and mind with impressions, promptings, feelings of peace and clarity. It is through these promptings that I can know truth in it's purest form.

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Answer 3

The Holy Spirit is part of the Godhead. The Father, Word, and Spirit.
The Father is the source of Life. Kaballah says
the Holy Spirit is the Archangel of our dimension.
The Gnostic Gospels say the Holy Spirit is a feminine
being. Bringing the Lifeforce to us from the Source.
Christ is, I believe, the male force. Reunion with the Source of Life we call God. And the Word is the mediator
between the two.

Answer 4

The Holy Spirit is part of the Trinity - He is the counselor that Jesus said would come when He ascended - He lives in the believer's heart.

Answer 5

"Trinity" is a term that is not found in the Bible but a word used to describe what is apparent about God in the Scriptures. The Bible clearly speaks of God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit...and also clearly presents that there is only one God. Thus the term: "Tri" meaning three, and "Unity" meaning one, Tri+Unity = Trinity. It is a way of acknowledging what the Bible reveals to us about God, that God is yet three "Persons" who have the same essence of deity. I'm Christian.

Answer 6

The Third Person of the Most Holy and Blessed Trinity.

Answer 7

I do not believe in the Trinity Doctrine. I believe that Jehovah is Almighty God and Jesus is his son. The holy spirit is Jehovah active force, used to accomplish his will. The bible speaks of persons being filled with holy spirit. It is a helper, to aid individuals to handle trials etc.

Answer 8

Well, that doesn't sound like a trinity but a duo if Jesus is both the Son and the Holy Spirit. This view seemingly separates Christ as being one with the Father although Jesus isn't His own Father and didn't begat Himself. The Holy Spirit is spirit and is definitely part of the trinity, thus the Holy Spirit is God just as Jesus is God. If a body tries hard enough they can become oneness in doctrine and ultimately deny the deity of Christ and His priesthood and sacrificial role which if we take away or add to those things, we will be accursed.
The Holy Ghost is the spirit of God, the POWER of God and the manifestation of it as the presence and voice of God, that spirit of Truth. The spirit helps our infirmities, is not law but love and grace. It helps our infirmities by writing/spreading the law of love abroad in our hearts when we receive the spirit. To have a form of godliness but to deny the power thereof is to miss becoming a son of God. They are described in these verses thos who deny the power of God to work in their lives so that sin will not have dominion over them and they are full of dead men's bones;
"2Ti 3:1 ¶ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."

God is a spirit. God the Father cannot lie and knows all things. The Holy Ghost cannot lie and knows all things. Jesus cannot lie and knows everything and obeyed everything God and the Holy Ghost asked and directed Him to speak but Jesus doesn't know the day or hour of His second coming or who will have the privilege of sitting at His right hand or left hand in heaven (Matt. 13:32 and Matt 20:23)
Jesus is equal to God; " Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:" Phil. 2:6
Jesus was God in the flesh. Jesus said He would pray the Father would send the Comfortor (Holy Ghost, teacher of Truth) in Jesus' name so Jesus is not the Holy Ghost and the Father is not the Holy Ghost. Jesus the Son, God the Father and The Holy Ghost/Spirit never contradict one another but are One God. "John 14:25 - 27 These things have I spoken unto you, being [yet] present with you. But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

The in-filling of the Holy Ghost/Spirit like they recieved on the day of Pentecost is the earnest of our inheritance which we may recieve while here on earth before we obtain our inheritance with Christ as joint heirs, that crown of life that Jesus blood provided and that same crown which we will cast at His feet and will say "Worthy is the Lamb".
Jesus was full of the Holy Ghost and was led of the Spirit (God's voice, power, insight, instruction) Luke 4:1, 2 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness," (in Him all fulness of the Godhead dwelt remember) Jesus is the "image of the invisible God".
You can't have God or the Holy Ghost without first obtaining salvation through the name and faith in the shed blood of Jesus for remission of sins because the Holy Ghost will not dwell in an unclean temple;
"12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;" Colossians 1
The Spirit is how God works, how He communicates with us and bore witness that Jesus is the Son of God; "John 1:33, 34 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God"
I John 4:1 "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: (KJV)
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. (KJV)"