Difference of Holy Spirit Effect Before and After the NT?

Radrook said:

There are those who seem confused with how the Holy Spirit operated before the New Testament was inaugurated and after it was inaugurated. The distinction that I was taught is that after the NT came into effect the Holy Spirit caused a person to be begotten or to become spiritual sons of God [regardless of gender] while still on Earth and that prior to the NT there is no mention of the Holy Spirit begetting anyone as a spiritual son of God with a hope of a heavenly resurrection in the same fashion..

What are your thoughts on this. I make a thread because on my thread, Can God Self- Terminate, the discussion is predominating and it is off topic there, But here it is on topic. So please discuss it here.

Please note that this discussion has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Trinity doctrine so please try to exclude Trinitarian controversial issues from the discussion. Thank you and God bless.

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The Holy Spirit is God and God does not change. The Spirit was placed inside certain people in OT to accomplish certain tasks, and it is given in the NT for the same reason. The difference today is not the Spirit (which you weren't suggesting anyway) but simply that it now seals us and acts as a retainer, a deposit... with a promise that more is to come. That is why Paul called the giving of the Spirit a deposit in 2 Corinthians 1:22 and 2 Corinthians 5:5. Otherwise, nothing has changed. Yeshua did not come to create a new religion, he came to prophetically walk out that which he was prophesied to do, no more or less.

Jesus Himself tells us. We are now friends, not servants, and have the HS to teach us all things. We thus see things from God's perspective now. In the OT we could only see it from the perspective of the many laws that were given.

The title of the OP could just as well be, Difference of God Effect Before and After the NT? It probably would spur ideas that are closer to the truth. I agree with the distinction made in the first paragraph of the OP.

I haven't checked it myself, but I understand that in the OT, the Spirit could be on or come over people, but we don't see him in people.

Regardless of the prepositions, Since the beginning, God's word on earth accomplished his will and his presence helped people—and people received him by faith. But they were reborn into unity with God—which is basically the lens through which I understand:

I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” (Luke 7:28, 1984 NIV)

God is omnipresent, so he is everywhere. But he lives in unapproachable light (1 Timothy 6:16), which I do not see on earth. Also, I do not see him as he is described in Revelation on his throne, even though he is in me. He has different kinds of presences.

Analogously, the Holy Spirit was present on the earth in the times of the OT, and with people before the coming of the Holy Spirit that Jesus spoke of, but in a different way than after the Spirit fell on people (which includes rebirth).