How do YOU explain the Holy Spirit to people?

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You know that feeling of guilt and the sense you've broken God's law commandments? Get born-again and come to know Holy Spirit personally and not have to have someone try to explain to you something that can only be individually experienced.

Or the ministry of signs, miracles, and wonders would work too. But even then it's an outward manifestation until that person gets saved.

 

[NBB]

The holy spirit is a person, he has feelings, thinks, has a personality, etc.
as a person he is very kind, and sensitive, and can be easily 'driven away' by rudeness, sins, etc.
Also, he is the best person you ever want to meet.
I'm guilty of not treating him like he deserves sadly.
If heaven was only passing time with him, close to him, then that would be good enough for me, no actually that would be the best.

 

[VMaeLove]

I am unsure yet. If we exist in 3 types of reality, body mind and soul. If Jesus is body, Holy Spirit is mind?

 

[NBB]

I am unsure yet. If we exist in 3 types of reality, body mind and soul. If Jesus is body, Holy Spirit is mind?

No, they are 3 different person but somehow they are the same God, but still they are 3 different persons , father, Jesus, and Holy spirit. The holy spirit is a person and is often said to execute what the father wants. Someone that executes the orders of the father something like that with his power.

He can enter our inner being, when we are we filled with him, and he is the nicest person ever, very gentle and kind and loving and sensible...

 

[VMaeLove]

No, they are 3 different person but somehow they are the same God, but still they are 3 different persons , father, Jesus, and Holy spirit. The holy spirit is a person and is often said to execute what the father wants. Someone that executes the orders of the father something like that with his power.

He can enter our inner being, when we are we filled with him, and he is the nicest person ever, very gentle and kind and loving and sensible...

Ya so together they are the perfect being as some thing which can interract with reality in seperate forms but from a same entity?

We are strongly limiting to physical interraction in our current body. The Holy spirit seems to be the closest we can interract with God through our mind.

This is how I understand right now. I do not actually know anything though.

 

[Rigatoni]

We're not explicitly told who or what the Holy Spirit is in scripture. However, we are given clues, which can help us to better understand and explain Him.

In Ephesians 4:30, we're told that He is a spiritual being who can be grieved. This reveals a lot in itself; the Holy Spirit is a person and has emotion. According to Romans 15:30, we see He is loving, possessing the same love of the Father since they have the same nature, and in Psalms 139:7-10 we also see He is omnipresent. We know the Holy Spirit has the same nature of God and is a member of the triune God as implicitly stated in Matthew 28:19.

We're also told the Holy Spirit is an advocate, teacher, brings freedom, gives both wisdom and understanding, convicts / guides, restrains evil and empowers believers. (John 14:26, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Isaiah 11:2, John 16:8, Romans 8:14, 2 Thessalonians 2:7, Acts of the Apostles 1:8). This is just my personal belief, but I do believe the power of the Father and Son comes from the Holy Spirit Himself, such as when the universe was created.

Every member of the Trinity seems to have their own unique personality and role, but all have the same nature. I see them as being similar to a family unit. The Father is the highest authority, and glorifies His Son. Jesus, the Son, is the agent of the Father, and seeks to glorify His Father. The Holy Spirit is the main acting force behind everything, an "invisible mover", and also glorifies the Son.

I also like VMae's description, regarding God having mind, body and spirit. Perhaps the Father would be the mind (the one who commands, just like how our mind issues commands to our body), the Son Jesus would be the body (the Word made flesh) and the Holy Spirit would be God's own spirit. This actually makes a lot of sense.

 

[NBB]

We're not explicitly told who or what the Holy Spirit is in scripture. However, we are given clues, which can help us to better understand and explain Him.

In Ephesians 4:30, we're told that He is a spiritual being who can be grieved. This reveals a lot in itself; the Holy Spirit is a person and has emotion. According to Romans 15:30, we see He is loving, possessing the same love of the Father since they have the same nature, and in Psalms 139:7-10 we also see He is omnipresent. We know the Holy Spirit has the same nature of God and is a member of the triune God as implicitly stated in Matthew 28:19.

We're also told the Holy Spirit is an advocate, teacher, brings freedom, gives both wisdom and understanding, convicts / guides, restrains evil and empowers believers. (John 14:26, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Isaiah 11:2, John 16:8, Romans 8:14, 2 Thessalonians 2:7, Acts of the Apostles 1:8). This is just my personal belief, but I do believe the power of the Father and Son comes from the Holy Spirit Himself, such as when the universe was created.

Every member of the Trinity seems to have their own unique personality and role, but all have the same nature. I see them as being similar to a family unit. The Father is the highest authority, and glorifies His Son. Jesus, the Son, is the agent of the Father, and seeks to glorify His Father. The Holy Spirit is the main acting force behind everything, an "invisible mover", and also glorifies the Son.

I also like VMae's description, regarding God having mind, body and spirit. Perhaps the Father would be the mind (the one who commands, just like how our mind issues commands to our body), the Son Jesus would be the body (the Word made flesh) and the Holy Spirit would be God's own spirit. This actually makes a lot of sense.

No that sound horrible each person should have their own mind, they are persons after all. You should not say the holy spirit doesn't have a mind because the father is the mind right?

 

[NBB]

Ya so together they are the perfect being as some thing which can interract with reality in seperate forms but from a same entity?

We are strongly limiting to physical interraction in our current body. The Holy spirit seems to be the closest we can interract with God through our mind.

This is how I understand right now. I do not actually know anything though.

Yes, its not easy at all to compehend the trinity concept, all i know i think is that each one is a different person that can interact with us individually. But they are the same God too.

 

[VMaeLove]

No that sound horrible each person should have their own mind, they are persons after all. You should not say the holy spirit doesn't have a mind because the father is the mind right?

I do not think that is what he meant?

My idea, we are made in Gods' image and even our own existence is hard to understand fully.
We clearly exist physically.
Our mind (not brain) seems separate from our body.. but also the same. I believe this is where the Holy Spirit meets us when we are in prayer or when our conscious.
And somewhere even deeper is our soul. We have a weak connection to it I think.. but it is where we are most connected with God. Where the frequencies of the universe interact. When something moves you to emotion you cannot explain.. or when you feel the pain of loved ones from a distance.. I think we are all connected with God from our soul, we are blessed to be given the chance to a physical experience.

So if we are in His image, I imagine some one like us but with perfect atune with their 3 selfs. I have no idea what some one like that would be truly capable of.. but in the Bible he can shape reality and matter at will and create life from almost nothing so..

 

[timewerx]

The Holy Spirit took me out of the fake Christianity, into the real one. It showed me something incredibly wrong in our world.

I somehow saw it among the clouds and among trees. Some kind of a life force

 

[NBB]

I do not think that is what he meant?

My idea, we are made in Gods' image and even our own existence is hard to understand fully.
We clearly exist physically.
Our mind (not brain) seems separate from our body.. but also the same. I believe this is where the Holy Spirit meets us when we are in prayer or when our conscious.
And somewhere even deeper is our soul. We have a weak connection to it I think.. but it is where we are most connected with God. Where the frequencies of the universe interact. When something moves you to emotion you cannot explain.. or when you feel the pain of loved ones from a distance.. I think we are all connected with God from our soul, we are blessed to be given the chance to a physical experience.

So if we are in His image, I imagine some one like us but with perfect atune with their 3 selfs. I have no idea what some one like that would be truly capable of.. but in the Bible he can shape reality and matter at will and create life from almost nothing so..

I think i don't know exactly what you or him actually meant.
Our intelligence and creativity come from the soul, a lot about us comes from our heart that is the center of us and the heart is part of our soul, well the mind too. All your pains and joys, thoughts about life and feelings about otheres and among the majority of feeling about somthing a person can have comes from the heart.

 

[Rigatoni]

No that sound horrible each person should have their own mind, they are persons after all. You should not say the holy spirit doesn't have a mind because the father is the mind right?

I meant that all three persons of the Trinity have their own individual roles as God. All three persons are equally God, but also have their own unique personalities and functions.

The Holy Spirit has his own mind, as does Jesus and the Father. But, the Father acts as the mind, and Jesus acts as the body.

 

[NBB]

I meant that all three persons of the Trinity have their own individual roles as God. All three persons are equally God, but also have their own unique personalities and functions.

The Holy Spirit has his own mind, as does Jesus and the Father. But, the Father acts as the mind, and Jesus acts as the body.

Ah yes, i see what you mean now, thanks for responding.

 

[Niels]

A different aspect of God. I think of the Holy Spirit much like I think of the spirit of the law.

The trinity strikes me as an eternal God relating to time and physical creation. The Father (source), The son (physical), The Spirit (meaning). Three beings from a finite perspective, yet the same being.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

How do you explain the Holy Spirit to people? At bible study last night we were studying on the Holy Spirit and one of the gals asked "Is the Holy Spirit a "He" or an "it"?" She went on to say that she knows God lives inside her, but found it weird to call the Holy Spirit a "He". Then another gal said she has trouble explaining to people, because she believes she has the Holy Spirit because the Bible say so, and she said they reply "well I could of written the bible" (no they couldn't lol but we are talking unbelievers here). I don't personally think it can be explained to non-believers because IMO it's the Holy Spirit that draws people to salvation so unless He is drawing them, they cannot receive or perceive Him. So....How do you explain it? How do you know you have the Holy Spirit?

Keep it simple, and Biblical.
Knowing what "spirit" is, in the Bible, show examples.
THen "holy", more examples.
Step by step. Over days or weeks or months... lots of more examples from the Bible.
Like planting seeds, or watering seeds... it will take time... and it is only God Who can give growth.