2007-04-15 05:27:10 · 12 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Holy Ghost is one of the persons in the godhead. All through church history many have thought of the Holy Ghost as the female representive of God. Father, Mother and Son. To human beings this appears natural, since we are created in Gods' image, and the Holy Ghost (Spirit) is the only one left to represent the female.
2007-04-15 05:46:51 · answer #1 · answered by kind 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The real issue is that both "Holy Ghost" and "Holy Spirit" refer to the Third Person of the Trinity, coequal and consubstantial with the Father and the Son (Matthew 28:19; Acts 5:3,4; 28:25,26; 1 Corinthians 12:4-6). He is the gift of the Father to His people on earth to initiate and complete the building of the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13). He is also the agency by which the world is convicted of sin, the Lord Jesus is glorified, and believers are transformed into His image (John 16:7-9; Acts 1:5, 2:4; Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 2:22). Whichever term we use, we remember that this Holy Ghost is God's active breath, blowing where He wishes, creating faith through water and Word.
2007-04-15 17:46:53 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is God's active force.
The Hebrew is Ru-Ach (roo-awk) in simple.
English is a Germanic language.
Ghost is related to the word Geist in German.
Early English translators used and cross reference their translation of the bible with the even earlier German translations.
Geist is essence, spirit, as became used in English.
In German today it also can be used as brain or mind with other uses depending on conjugation.
Another English word that is closely related is "gist".
A ghost is an apparition or manifestation.
When the bible was translated to English, 1600s and later, it was the idea of God's "manifestation" in creation and ghost was understood as this not as an apparition.
In English today, as language use has changed, ghost has come to mean a spook, a spirit, an apparition that is in a vague form.
In today's English when explaining or thinking of the Holy Ghost is is better to use the term Holy Spirit and or God's active force.
In another 300 years it may be clearer to use ghost again.
2007-04-15 13:18:12 · answer #3 · answered by cordsoforion 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi jennyann 4. The Holy Ghost is the third person of the Trinity and also God Almighty Himself. God gives us many scripture telling us that God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are one. In In Isaiah 9:6 God fortells of the birth of Jesus:
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
Again in 1 John 5:7 God tells us that the Three are One:
“For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.”
In John 1:14 God tells us the Word is Jesus:
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”
How could Christ raise Lazarus, a man who had been dead for four days, from the dead? How can The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit be One? With our finite minds we do not understand everything, but God with His infinite mind, nothing is impossible.
2007-04-15 12:44:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Holy Ghost or Spirit is God Himself.
God is Holy.
God is Spirit.
God is the Holy Spirit.
He is also the Father of spirits.
Heb 12:9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
He is also His Word.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2007-04-15 12:45:24 · answer #5 · answered by chris p 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
These days He is refered to as the Holy Spirit,the term Ghost was dropped as it made Him seem unreal and not quite God,it has been said that God the Father and God the Son`s love is so incredible that it is the third Person of the Holy Trinity,ie the Holy Spirit Himself.
2007-04-15 12:43:27 · answer #6 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The doctrine of the Holy Trinity states there is one true God who is made up of three separate but equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
God, as the Holy Trinity, has always existed.
We know the least about the Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost). Most of what we know is through His (or Her) actions. He is never at rest. Symbols of the Holy Spirit are a flame and a flying dove.
"No one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God." (1 Cor 2:11)
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." (John 16:13)
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. (John 14:17)
With love in Christ.
2007-04-16 00:47:59 · answer #7 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Holy ghost is an xtian version that god Jesus an the spirit is one. Eventhough The Spirit says to kill those that do not want JC as kink (Luke 19)
2007-04-16 00:52:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. A person who says the It is just God's active force (like the person below my answer) is probably a non-trinitarian Christian (like a Jehovah's Witness).
2007-04-15 12:34:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
An evil spirit that tries to control men's hearts and make them feel bad about everything. **** the holy spirit!
2007-04-15 13:22:43 · answer #10 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋