Title: The Divinity of the Holy Spirit
Content br> "The divinity of the Holy Spirit" means that the Holy Spirit becomes God. This doctrine has almost no doubt been recognized as a basic doctrine since the time of the early church. However, people like Arius also claimed that the Holy Spirit was a created being. At first he made these claims because he was obsessed with the personification of the Holy Spirit, but eventually he came to deny both. Eventually he was condemned as heresy. However, in fact, claiming that the Holy Spirit is a person does not necessarily mean that the Holy Spirit is God. Because the two do not oppose each other, but coexist and complement each other.
The Bible has abundant evidence of the divinity of the Holy Spirit. Let's look at the biblical evidence that the Holy Spirit is God. These evidences will undoubtedly lead us to the conclusion that the Holy Spirit is a God in the fullness of divinity.
The Holy Spirit is eternal.
Eternity is the absolute attribute of divinity.
He cannot be God if he lacks the eternity of the Holy Spirit. That the Holy Spirit is eternal means that He never did not exist from past to now, or from eternity to eternity, has existed from eternity, with no possibility of perishing into non-existence, and will exist for all eternity. It means. The Holy Spirit is not limited by time. He is the One who transcends all time. He is the ruler of time. Since humans are finite beings in time, they cannot fully comprehend “eternity” or infinite temporality. But just because humans understand "eternity" doesn't mean that "eternity" doesn't exist because humans don't understand it. God is eternal. The Holy Spirit is eternal. There is no death or extinction for the Holy Spirit. The Bible speaks of the eternity of the Holy Spirit:
“How much more can the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Hebrews 9:14)
The Holy Spirit is omnipresent.
The English word for "absence" is "omnipresent". It is a combination of the prefix omni and the adjective present, meaning "ubiquitous" or "ubiquitous." The word omni comes from the Latin prefix omni, which means "all".
Therefore, the fact that the Holy Spirit is omnipresent means that the Holy Spirit is everywhere, and there is no place where the Holy Spirit is not present. This means that the Holy Spirit is not limited by space. He transcends space. He is the ruler of space. At the same time, He exists everywhere in the world. Human beings who are limited by space cannot properly understand the omnipresence of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the meaning is not fully understood. However, we must believe the testimony of the Bible as it is.
The Bible says:
"Where shall I go from Your Spirit, where shall I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Hades, You are there. Even if I spread my wings at the dawn and go to dwell at the ends of the sea, even there Your hand will guide me, Your right hand. He will uphold me” (Psalm 139:7-10)
The omnipresence of the Holy Spirit is closely related to the prayers of the saints. That is, the prayers of the saints are based on the omnipresence of the Holy Spirit. Saints can pray anywhere. Because the Holy Spirit is everywhere. If the Holy Spirit is not everywhere, He will not be able to hear the prayers of the saints, and the saints will either find out where the Holy Spirit is and go to that place to pray, or use their voices with all their might to pray to Him. We need to hear it, so how can we know where the Holy Spirit is, and how loud can we make our prayers so that He can hear them? Do I have to pray through the loudspeaker? Or what should I do? If you fully realize the omnipresence of the Holy Spirit, you can properly understand Jesus' teaching on prayer, and your wrong prayer life will be fundamentally changed.
See what Jesus said about prayer.
"And when you pray, do not be like hypocrites, for they love to stand in the synagogues and at the entrance to the streets to be seen, to pray. Go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you” (Matthew 6:5-6)
The Holy Spirit is omniscient.
To say that the Holy Spirit is all-knowing means that the Holy Spirit is all-knowing. The Holy Spirit has no limits in knowledge. The Holy Spirit knows everything from eternity to eternity. There is no knowledge that transcends His power, and no knowledge that rejects His power. Because He is eternal, His knowledge is eternal. Since He is perfect, His knowledge is also perfect. There is no error in his knowledge. The Holy Spirit has already known what he knows now, and he will always know. His knowledge does not increase or decrease.
Humans are always short of knowledge, inferior, stupid, and prone to mistakes. No, all humans are ignorant. But the Holy Spirit is knowledgeable. Because the Holy Spirit is all-knowing and all-knowing. The Holy Spirit knows us. The Holy Spirit knows our past, present and future. The Holy Spirit knows our children, our families. The Holy Spirit knows all our circumstances. The Holy Spirit knows our thoughts and our hearts. The Holy Spirit knows but knows perfectly. You know everything. You know for sure.
If we realize and are convinced of the omniscience of the Holy Spirit, our prayer posture, prayer method, and content of prayer will change. The prayers of saints are absolutely different from those of idolaters. Consider Jesus' words about prayer in relation to the omniscience of the Holy Spirit.
"And when you pray, do not keep babbling like the Gentiles, for they think that they will hear you when they talk a lot. Therefore do not be like them, for God your Father knows what you need before asking" (Matthew 6:7-8).
Humans can deceive humans. But the Holy Spirit cannot deceive. How can you deceive the All-knowing One? Ananias and Sapphira could not deceive the Holy Spirit.
“Peter said to him, Ananias, why is Satan filling your heart with the Holy Spirit and hiding the price of the land?” (Acts 5:3)
We do not need to be discouraged or sad in our difficulties. Because the Holy Spirit knows everything.
The Holy Spirit is omnipotent.
To say that the Holy Spirit is omnipotent means that the Holy Spirit possesses infinite power. The power of the Holy Spirit is perfect. His power is not defective, lost, weakened, worn out, extinguished, or extinguished.
He does not borrow or receive His power from anything outside of Himself. Because He exists by Himself, He is also in power. Thus, he is the source of power and the source of power. His power is limitless. His power has neither beginning nor end.
The omnipotence of the Holy Spirit is a fundamental element for the other attributes of the Holy Spirit. If He is not omnipotent, how could He be eternal, omnipresent, and omniscient? If he were not omnipotent, how could he become a creator, preserve and sustain all that he has created? His power was clearly shown through the history of conceiving the Holy Son of God in a virgin's body for eternal salvation. How sure is this proof?
“The angel answered and said, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God” (Luke 1:35).
Without this power, He is not the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the Creator.
When the Holy Spirit is the creator, it means that the Holy Spirit did the work of creation when he created the heavens and the earth, and this also means that he is the one who created mankind.
Genesis 1:1 says that God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:2 is the first mention of the Holy Spirit, and it is recorded that "the Spirit of God moved on the waters." The meaning of these words is that the Holy Spirit was with us in the work of creation.
In Colossians 1:16-17, the apostle Paul testified that Jesus Christ did the work of creation.
“For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities, all things were created through him and for him, and he was before all things, and in him all things hold together. "(Colossians 1:16-17)
We will discuss this in detail in the "Trinity God (Unit 6)" chapter.
In the work of creation, the Holy Spirit is the Creator who created the heavens and the earth. The man of God, Job, testified that the Holy Spirit created him.
“The Spirit of God has made me, and the spirit of the Almighty gives me life” (Job 33:4).
The Holy Spirit is the Creator. The Creator is God. No one but God can be a creator.
The Holy Spirit is holy.
To say that the Holy Spirit is holy means that the Holy Spirit is innocent and has nothing to do with sin. The holiness of the Holy Spirit is not created by a third party. The holiness of the Holy Spirit is the very essence of holiness and the very source of holiness. The Holy Spirit is the “Holy Spirit” as its title, “Holy Spirit,” itself indicates, and is completely distinct from other spirits other than the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a "Holy Spirit," but other spirits are not. The Bible describes other spirits as "dirty spirits" or &q