Mark 3:29,30 portrays the Holy Spirit in a clear contrast with an unclean spirit. Jesus was accused by some hostile Jewish leaders of having an unclean spirit. He responded by saying that He had the Holy Spirit.
Just as unclean spirit is a personal being ( The Watchtower Society teaches that unclean spirits are personal beings ), so too is the contrasting spirit -the Holy Spirit - a personal being.
What do you think about this?
2007-10-09 13:32:29 · 3 answers · asked by Nina, BaC 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
who ever that blablasphemes has the unclean spirit..throw away the watch tower its trash ..
2007-10-09 13:49:34 · answer #1 · answered by revbill_ussery 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several times Jesus was accused of being possessed by a demon, yet none of those times did Jesus respond by claiming to be possessed by an angel or other "good" spirit being. The fact is that Jesus was not possessed by anyone, but continued to exercise free will for the duration of his earthly life and ministry.
(John 7:20) The crowd answered: “You have a demon.
(John 8:48) In answer the Jews said to him: “Do we not rightly say, You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
(John 10:20) Many of them were saying: “He has a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to him?”
At Mark 3:22-30, Jesus was certainly not discussing who had possessed him, but was refuting the blasphemy that the power to perform godly miracles had come from any source but Almighty God.
(Mark 3:22-30) Scribes that came down from Jerusalem were saying: “He has Beelzebub, and he expels the demons by means of the ruler of the demons.” So, after calling them to him, he began to say to them with illustrations: “How can Satan expel Satan? ...Truly I say to you that all things will be forgiven the sons of men, no matter what sins and blasphemies they blasphemously commit. However, whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit has no forgiveness forever, but is guilty of everlasting sin.” This, because they were saying: “He has an unclean spirit.”
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http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_08.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20020515/
http://watchtower.org/e/20050422/article_02.htm
2007-10-10 08:04:48 · answer #2 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had a dream about the Holy Spirit a fews years back:
In the dream I was wrestling with the Holy Spirit. We were doing a move where I was on His back and He was going to roll me over His back. Of to the west there was a tree with a big ugly snake, the snake started coming down towards me and was going to kill me. I tried getting off the Holy Spirits back so I could kill the snake. The Holy Spirit wouldn't let me up, but I kept trying and He wouldn't let me up no matter what I did. I showed Him that there was a huge snake coming down from the tree to kill me, right as the snake was about to bite me the Holy Spirit turned around and killed it for me. ~
In that dream the Holy Spirit was teaching me how to fight in my dreams. Whenever I have something bothering me, I will use those moves that the Holy Spirit taught me in my prayers. The moves work like a charm everytime.
Holy Spirit
When I was about 12 or 13, I was having hard troubled times.
One day, my mother and I had gotten into an arguement and she left the house. I was in tears, and couldn't help myself but cry. I went in her room and layed on her bed, and just cried and cried as loud as I could. I had felt that she nevers listens to me. I had been feeling for a long period of time before that, that I had a desire to kill myself.
I got up off of her bed, and I went into the kitchen. I sat on the counter next to the refigerator and got a bottle of pills to take. I didnt care what they were. I took as many as I could, and when I felt I was satisfied I got off of the counter and went in my room to go to sleep. I went into my room and layed on my bed to fall asleep. I was getting irritated because I wasn't able to fall asleep. So I got up and went into the kitchen again and I got a plastic bag. I went back into my room and layed on my bed. As I was laying on my bed I tried to suffocate myself. I didn't like how losing my breath in a slow manner felt so I stopped.
After I stopped, I started to cry even more because of the pain I was in. There was broken glass on my bed from my breaking into the house a few weeks earlier. I reached under me, and got a piece of glass to cut my wrist. I was sliding the glass back and forth on my arms. Finally when I was about to cut my wrist. The Holy Spirit comes to me from the east. He grabs my arms and tells me, "Don't, you are someone special." In that time I quit what I was doing, and I was able to cry myself to sleep.
I haven't ever had the thought to kill myself again since that time as a young girl.
I have known the Holy Spirit for most of my life. To look at me and judge me the way it has been done I am sure the Holy Spirit isn't to pleased about this because they have been my guidence for many manyy years and is still with me today. I am sure without a doubt they are watching and keeping record of what is going on in my life right now.
One thing is for sure is that I have been laughed at, taunted, criticized, turned away, beaten up, and tormented becuase of the Holy Spirits teachings. That I know is something is unforgivable when the Holy Spirit sees this kind of behaviour in people. I am sure the Holy Spirit knows this as wickedness in people. I love the Holy Spirit with all that I am in my soul, mind, and spirit.
DON'T ANYONE EVER FORGET THAT!
2007-10-09 20:50:02 · answer #3 · answered by white_painted_lady 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋