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Originally Posted by aron
Do not tell the Holy Spirit what it should do, or how and when it should do it.
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Originally Posted by CMW
HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT AN IT. HE IS A REAL PERSON.
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We crack me up (which is a good thing, perchance), when we attribute human characteristics and notions to God and the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is more than a male, it, or person, like as we know and understand these terms, this side of the supernatural. Try as we may the Spirit is not going to make a warm spot on our sofa so we can talk to it like we do anybody else.
The Holy Spirit is so glorious that It's an It to far beyond our capability to understand any which it of It.
But I understand a knee-jerk reflex at calling It - the Spirit - an It. However the scripture is not so uptight about It ... Loosen up a little sis
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Joh 1:32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself
1Pe 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
And all my "its" and "Its" are puns, I think.