The Holy Spirit Is A Person, Not A Force.

 

    Now besides Jehovah witnesses denying the deity of the Holy Spirit as God, they deny that it is a 'person' and consider it a force that Jehovah will send out. Jehovah witnesses will appeal to personification  and will say that the Holy Spirit is under the affect of personification, yet how can appeal to such an argument when the Holy Spirit is mentioned in the same line as a flesh and blood human and the sentence says that both are doing something or can do something. One would not argue that the person is not actual able to do such actions, or is doing such actions in the sentence so why do they attack the Holy Spirit?

    What do we mean when we say the Holy Spirit is a person? We mean that the Holy Spirit has emotions and the ability to think and have minds. They have wills and awareness. We do not limit a person to being flesh and blood, for a person to have flesh and blood would make them human. There is a difference in this sense between person and human. 

• John 15:26-27 

    26 When the helper comes that I will send you from the Father, the spirit of the truth, which comes from the Father, that one will bear witness about me; 27 and you, in turn, are to bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

    Here Christ says that the helper, the Spirit of truth will bear witness to Christ, just as the Apostles will bear witness to Him. So the Spirit has a mind to think and remember and awareness of the things and world around Itself. 

• Acts 5:3

    3 But Peter said: "Ananias, why has Satan emboldened you to lie to the holy spirit and secretly hold back some of the price of the field?

    So Ananias who was emboldened by Satan, lied to the Holy Spirit. How can one lie to a force? I cannot lie to gravity no matter how much I want to float, I can only lie to things that a 'persons'.

    These next two examples are very important because some Jehovah witnesses will argue that the Holy Spirit is not a 'person' because It never uses personal pronouns, and yet I have two occurrences where It does.

• Acts 10:19-20 Part I

    19 As Peter was still pondering over the vison, the spirit said: "Look! Three men are asking for you. 20 So get up, go downstairs and go with them, not doubting at all, because I have sent them."

• Acts 13:2 Part II

    2 As they were ministering to Jehovah and fasting, the holy spirit said: "Set aside for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." 

    "I have sent them"; "Set aside for me"; "I have called them", wow. I thought the Holy Spirit did not use personal pronouns. Why is this force able to use personal pronouns. 

• Acts 15:28-29 

    28 For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you except these necessary things: 29 to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols, from, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!"

    The Holy Spirit along with the Apostles and Elders, had the ability to discern what was unnecessary and what was necessary. To be able to discern, you must have a mind, and awareness and consideration. 

• Ephesians 4:30 Part I

    30 Also, do not be grieving God's holy spirit, which you have been sealed for a day of releasing by ransom. 

• Isaiah 63:10 Part II

    10 But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit. He then turned into their enemy, And he fought against them.

    So the Holy Spirit who is apparently a force can be rebelled against and be grieved to anger? How does that make sense Jehovah witness? 

• Micah 2:7 

    7 Is it being said, O house of Jacob: "Has the spirit of Jehovah become impatient? Are these his deeds?" Do not my own words bring good to those walking uprightly? 

• Romans 8:26-27 

    26 In like manner, the spirit also joins in with help for our weakness; for the problem is that we do not know what we should pray for as we need to, but the spirit itself pleads for us with unuttered groanings. 27 But the one who searches the hearts knows what the meaning of the spirit is, because it is pleading in harmony with God for holy ones.

    We are told the Holy Spirit pleads for us with unuttered groanings. Then we are told that the One who searches the hearts, knows what the meaning of the Spirit is. What does that mean? We will look at it, then it says that the One who searches hearts, is pleading in harmony with God for the Holy ones. Who is the One that searches the hearts? I thought God knows the heart of man? So clearly someone else has this ability. (I will go over this in another article) But that is Christ. See Luke 5:22 Christ knew the inner thoughts of the Pharisees' hearts. Now let me show the Greek for verse 27.

Example 1 The Kingdom Interlinear of the Greek Scriptures jw.org

    So this one that knows the hearts, knows what the mind of the Spirit is. Interesting, how does a force have a mind and is still not a person? Because, It is a PERSON. 

    As from this evidence I have given, I believe it is quite clear that the Holy Spirit is not a force but It is a person according to the definition I gave at the beginning of the article.  I will do another article going over how we prove that the Holy Spirit is God according to how It is spoken about and the characteristics It has.

"The LORD bless you

and keep you;

the LORD make His face shine upon you

and be gracious to you;

the LORD turn His face toward you 

and give you peace." ☦