Is the Holy Spirit "He" or "It"??

Question

Please, explain

Line Dancer: These are my questions and I decide who will get the best answer. You did not even answer my question.

Answer 1

The Holy spirit is a person. He possesses a mind, emotions, and a will. The Holy Spirit thinks and knows (1 Corinthians 2:10). The Holy Spirit can be grieved (Ephesians 4:30). The Spirit intercedes for us (Romans 8:26-27). The Holy Spirit makes decisions according to His will (1 Corinthians 12:7-11). The Holy Spirit is God, the third “Person” of the Trinity. As God, the Holy Spirit can truly function as the Comforter and Counselor that Jesus promised He would be (John 14:16,26; 15:26).

Answer 2

He is the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is He. He is not an it. If He was, then how in the world does one lie to an it, as Ananias and Saphira did in Acts 5? In fact, there we find Peter calling the The Holy Spirit God! And if He is not a He, but an it; then how does one receive guidance and counsel from an it? (John 14:26;16:14)

The whole idea of Him being just a force, a wind, rather than indeed having properties that are analogous to Him in creation like these, just as the Son and trhe Father have, is just preposterous!

Answer 3

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God the Father.

Answer 4

You have proved your skill at picking wrong Best Answers. Which one will you choose this time?

To the contrary, I answer your questions. The problem is, you don't want the truth. Like so many others, you just want your ears tickled. You have a contempt for Jehovah's Witnesses and you wish to sway others over to your erroneous point of view.

Let me now answer your question. It is not unusual for God’s Word to personify things that are not a person. These include wisdom, discernment, sin, death, and undeserved kindness. ( Ro. 5:14, 17, 21; 6:12) Jesus himself said that “wisdom is proved righteous by all its children,” or its good results. (Luke 7:35) Clearly, wisdom is not a person that has literal children! Likewise, the holy spirit is not a person simply because in some instances it is personified.

Concerning your question about 1 John 5:7, you gave a Best Answer to someone who did not answer your question. So you have your sweet nerve saying I don't answer questions.

What do religious research sources say about the holy spirit? Do they say the holy spirit is a person? Have a look.

The Catholic Encyclopedia: "Nowhere in the Old Testament do we find any clear indication of a Third Person."

Catholic theologian Fortman: "The Jews never regarded the spirit as a person; nor is there any solid evidence that any Old Testament writer held this view. . . . The Holy Spirit is usually presented in the Synoptics [Gospels] and in Acts as a divine force or power."

The New Catholic Encyclopedia: "The O[ld] T[estament] clearly does not envisage God's spirit as a person . . . God's spirit is simply God's power. If it is sometimes represented as being distinct from God, it is because the breath of Yahweh acts exteriorly." It also says: "The majority of N[ew] T[estament] texts reveal God's spirit as something, not someone; this is especially seen in the parallelism between the spirit and the power of God."

A Catholic Dictionary: "On the whole, the New Testament, like the Old, speaks of the spirit as a divine energy or power."

Hence, neither the Jews nor the early Christians viewed the holy spirit as part of a Trinity. That teaching came centuries later. As A Catholic Dictionary notes: "The third Person was asserted at a Council of Alexandria in 362 . . . and finally by the Council of Constantinople of 381"—some three and a half centuries after holy spirit filled the disciples at Pentecost!

No, the holy spirit is not a person and it is not part of a Trinity. The holy spirit is God's active force that he uses to accomplish his will. It is not equal to God but is always at his disposition and subordinate to him.

Answer 5

HE is the Third Person of the Godhead, or "Trinity". God is one God in Three distinct Persons: God The Father; God The Son; God The Holy Spirit. Therefore, The Holy Spirit is a Person.

Example I have used when speaking to Jehovah's Witnesses; If The Holy Spirit isn't a distinct Person, how can He be Blasphemed against ? Answer: If He isn't a distinct Person, He couldn't be Blasphemed against, only a Person can be Blasphemed against. Therefore The Holy Spirit is a He. Not an it.
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Answer 6

He, because He is God's Holy Spirit living in us.

Answer 7

A starting point from the Hebrew scriptures:

http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Names_of_G-d/Spirit_of_God/spirit_of_god.html

Now, as to my own personal understanding and experience as I relate to the teachings of Christ there is a Father figure who is a protector, provider and disciplinarian. Jesus referred to God as "Our Father who art in heaven". To me personally He became "a Father to the fatherless". In this way God is male.

But wait, there is more.

In Genesis chapter 1:
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

Look closely at verse 27. So, if God created both man and woman in His likeness, that means that there must be a feminine aspect of God. Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as the Comforter. Now, when I think of comforting I think of what a mother does for her children. Now, to me personally, when I lost my mother, that is exactly what the Holy Spirit then became to me, a Mother. A gentile and loving nurturer who looked after me like no one else could.

A literal look at many scriptures will render a masculine pronoun but don't get lost in the pronoun forest. God is both masculine and feminine or else why did He create male and female "in His image".

Answer 8

The Holy Spirit is a spiritual person as the third Person of the Trinity. Jesus was a male human, but is also the second person of the trinity.

Answer 9

Definitely He. Father, Son and Holy Spirit...three hims.

Answer 10

neither. The HolySpirit is pure Holy Spirit, or the MIND OF Christ:

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:12-16.