So, student... the "Holy Spirit" means nothing to you ?<quoted text>
It is true that Jesus spoke of the holy spirit as a helper and spoke of such helper as teaching,bearing witness,giving evidence,guiding,speaking, hearing, and receiving. In so doing, the original Greek shows Jesus at times applying the personal pronoun he to that helper(paraclete).(Compare Joh 14:16, 17, 26; 15:26; 16:7-15.)
However, it is not unusual in the Scriptures for something that is not actually a person to be personalized or personified.
Wisdom is personified in the book of Proverbs (1:20-33; 8:1-36); and feminine pronominal forms are used of it in the original Hebrew, as also in many English translations.(KJ, RS, JP, AT) Wisdom is also personified at Matthew 11:19 and Luke 7:35, where it is depicted as having both works and children.
The apostle Paul personalized sin and death and also undeserved kindness as kings.(Ro 5:14, 17, 21; 6:12) He speaks of sin as receiving an inducement,working out covetousness,seducing, and killing.(Ro 7:8-11)
Yet it is obvious that Paul did not mean that sin was actually a person.
Since God himself is a Spirit and is holy and since all his faithful angelic sons are spirits and are holy, it is evident that if the holy spirit were a person, there should reasonably be given some means in the Scriptures to distinguish and identify such spirit person from all these other holy spirits.
At Matthew 28:19 reference is made to the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit. A name can mean something other than a personal name. When, in English, we say,in the name of the law, or in the name of common sense, we have no reference to a person as such.
Further evidence against the idea of personality as regards the holy spirit is the way it is used in association with other impersonal things, such as water and fire (Mt 3:11; Mr 1:8);
Christians are spoken of as being baptized in holy spirit.(Ac 1:5; 11:16)
Persons are urged to become filled with spirit instead of with wine.(Eph 5:18)
So, too, persons are spoken of as being filled with it along with such qualities as wisdom and faith (Ac 6:3, 5; 11:24) or joy (Ac 13:52)
And holy spirit is inserted, or sandwiched in, with a number of such qualities at 2 Corinthians 6:6. It is most unlikely that such expressions would be made if the holy spirit were a divine person. As to the spirits bearing witness(Ac 5:32; 20:23), it may be noted that the same thing is said of the water and the blood at 1 John 5:6-8.
While some texts refer to the spirit as witnessing,speaking, or saying things, other texts make clear that it spoke through persons, having no personal voice of its own.(Compare Heb 3:7; 10:15-17; Ps 95:7; Jer 31:33, 34; Ac 19:2-6; 21:4; 28:25.)
Ruach and pneuma, therefore, when used with reference to Gods holy spirit, refer to Gods invisible active force by which he accomplishes his divine purpose and will.
Do you ever get tired of upholding the lies of watch tower? Spreading lies will not be tolerated by GOD...student
There is no end to your excuses that you make for trying to make the scriptures fit the watch tower doctrine.
You are the pathetic! and sad.
You really believe this garbage on the watch tower? watch tower men are your God, student.
Your conscious has been seared with a hot iron.
student....if you really had Jesus Christ in your heart...you would KNOW who the "Holy Spirit"
You really need to do some 'soul searching ...on your own!..without the influence of the watch tower men.