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Who or What is the Holy Spirit? 

The Holy Spirit flows from God to Christ, in turn, 

to all true believers.  



Nab B, October 2016(updated August 8, 2025)

“Rightly Divide the Word” (2 Tim 2:15-18)


“Shun the Traditions of Men” (Col 2:8)




A Different Approach!




I hope my unorthodox approach will prove how the Trinity doctrine is inadequate to fit what is revealed in the scriptures.


My interest, and hopefully yours, is to find what God is saying, not what a system of theology is saying! My notes endeavour to show how the scriptures, though profoundly deep, are equally clear and simple to understand if we allow His Spirit to guide us. 


Whether you agree or disagree, let us "Speak the truth in love". (Eph 4:15)


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If we believe that “God is Spirit” in John 4:24, and that He is “Holy” in Isaiah 6:3, then the Holy Spirit is not a separate or distinct person from God, like some sort of an impersonal force outside of Him or a third person of a trinity. 


The Holy Spirit is God Himself in action! It is the power of God creating, working, influencing, controlling, giving life, and guiding all things and all creatures, at all times.


"How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" (Luke 11:13)


"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me...to preach the gospel to the poor...to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised," (Luke 4:18)


"Because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit...having been given to us." (Rom 5:5) ESV




The Holy Spirit: 

Is it Jesus? Or in Jesus?



Jesus Christ never once claimed to be the Holy Spirit or an equal. In fact, He made it clear there is a vast difference between Himself and the Holy Spirit. Jesus clearly is not coequal or co-eternal as taught by church theologians.


There is no need to repeat an ambiguous teaching claiming Jesus was acting in his humanity, pretending to be lower than his divinity. Although such a claim may sound intellectual to the naive, it's utter foolishness to God. 


I urge my readers to follow the scriptures in their clarity and simplicity, and not clever theologians! 



The passage in Matthew 12:31-32 sheds light on this matter:


"Therefore, I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." ( ESV )



Why the distinction? If the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ are fully co-equal, then it wouldn't matter whether the Pharisees blasphemed the Son or the Holy Spirit. The outcome should have been the same with no forgiveness under any circumstances! 


But that was not the case. 


And please, there is no need to repeat what some deceived theologians claim that the Son was acting in his humanity, pretending to be lower than his divinity. Such a claim may sound intellectual to the naive, but it's utter foolishness to God. 


Follow the scriptures in their clarity and simplicity, and not some clever theologians!


Although the Pharisees attacked Jesus, they were forgiven. Not so when they attacked and blasphemed the Spirit of God, which is in Christ Jesus. Such an unpardonable sin is reserved only against the Holy Spirit, not Jesus! Therefore, Christ couldn't be the Holy Spirit. 



Here are a few scriptures proving Jesus IS NOT the Holy Spirit but possesses the full power of the Spirit of God! 



"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me." (Luke 4:18)

"For he gives the Spirit without measure. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand." (John 3:34-35) ESV 

“God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!” (Gal 4:6)




The Holy Spirit of God 

Poured Through Jesus Christ!



What is Jesus doing with all the power and authority God bestowed on Him? He became a "Life-giving Spirit," imparting everlasting life to those who believe by distributing the Holy Spirit He received from His Father. 


Meditate on these scriptures, see the Holy Spirit flows through Christ to all true believers:


“Therefore, being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.” (Acts 2:33)


"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God...Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:12-13)


"For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will." (John 5:21) NKJV


"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser...you are the branches, without Me you can do nothing." (John 15:1,5) NKJV


"All things that the Father hath are mine. Therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall shew it unto you" (John 16:15).


"The last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit." (1 Cor 15:45) ESV




Don't be Confused by Other Names 

of the Holy Spirit


The following expressions found in the New Testament, although different, simply mean the Holy Spirit, the power of God, or the life of God, which is in Christ Jesus, who, in turn, gives to those who believe.





How is The Holy Spirit Received?


Because Christ reconciled us to God through His death and saved us through His resurrection, we can, for the first time, become children of God if we choose. 


I suspect some hear the phrase "children of God" without grasping its full implications. 


A child of God is not subject to sin and death. Why, you ask? Because God "is not the God of the dead, but...of the living." (Mark 12:27) The Holy Spirit is God's seal of approval that you are marked as a child of God, not subject to death.


By faith (full trust) in what God has done through Christ, one is born again through the Holy Spirit. You will know it when it happens. The event is often inexpressible. It changes everything. Soon, the newly born-again and others begin to recognize the anointing by the fruits the Holy Spirit produces in the believer, just as Jesus taught,


"The tree is known by its fruit." (Matt 12:33)


"Ye shall know them by their fruits." (Matt 7:16)


Such fruits are the "fruits of the Holy Spirit" and never our own fruits, which are "of the flesh". (See Gal 5:17-24)


Through the Holy Spirit, God confirms this new birth by giving His witness to the born-again concerning His Son. I have often wondered, why would God send the "Spirit of His Son into our hearts"? I know now that it's so because God knows that those who believe do so by faith without seeing. As a reward, the ultimate proof is sent to, not through a book or someone, but by sending the "Spirit of His Son" into the new believer's spirit, confirming their faith. 


"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God...heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ" (Rom 8:16-17)


"Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." (Gal 4:6)


"I shall be asking the Father, and He will be giving you another consoler, that it, indeed, may be with you for the eon, the spirit of truth...Yet you know it, for it is remaining with you and will be in you." (John 14:16-17) Concordant Translation


Progressively, the indwelling Holy Spirit causes the new believer an incredible feeling as though he or she has known the Father and the Son intimately. It increasingly "draws" the new believer towards the spirit of His Son as seen in this verse:


"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." (John 6:44) 



The Holy Spirit doesn't come on or off. Rather, it fills, dwells, and remains in the believer as God's seal and guarantee of the new life:


"I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matt 28:18)

 

"If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." (John 14:23)


"In Him...you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise...is the guarantee of our inheritance." (Eph 1:13-14) NKJV


"Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." (Rom 8:15)



Just as a new infant grows gradually, God begins to conform the new believer into the image of His Son through the indwelling Holy Spirit in the believer.


"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate (or designate; concordant) to be conformed to the image of his Son." (Rom 8:29)




Shocking! 

Believers Share in God's Divine Nature!



Some might have thought that God is some Tyrant in heaven who would compel all creatures to worship Him robotically day and night! 


If this is or was your idea of God, perhaps it's time to reconsider!


While it pleases God that all creatures glorify Him, as they should, it pleases Him more when He showers them, particularly humans, with perfect love and care.


"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (Rom 8:32)


By pouring His Holy Spirit on believers, God shares His nature or essence, as He does with His Son! Is this shocking to you? It looks as if God has widened the range of the Trinity (I'm being facetious) to include all true believers sharing and partaking of His divine nature, essence, or substance, just like Jesus Christ. 


And why not? After all, if one is born of God, shouldn't he or she share and partake of God's "divine nature"?! 


Does this make them equal to God? No, it does not! Neither believers nor Jesus is equal to God. But all are born of the Holy Spirit of God, sharing in God's divine nature.


If this sounds to you over the top, then examine these scriptural facts for yourself: 


This is how Peter expressed it: 

"His divine power has given to us all things...by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the DIVINE NATURE." (2 Pet 1:4) NKJV



This is what Jesus fervently prayed for: 

"That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us." (John 17:21) ESV



This is what Paul was inspired to : 

"And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." (1 Cor 15:49)


"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." (2 Cor 5:17) ESVI



I urge my readers to follow the scriptures in their clarity and simplicity, and not clever theologians! 




Your Personal Responsibility 

about the Trinity



I hope you recognize that a believer will be judged on his or her personal conviction of faith and not on what you have been told to believe. 


No matter how persuasively one was taught in a church, or how obedient one was to a teaching, it is our responsibility to examine all things by the Spirit, the scriptures, and a sound mind. 


"So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God." (Rom 14:12)


The Trinity is unbiblical. It is an affront to God. There are no three persons in one. There are only two persons, God and Christ, and they are not one being, but two SEPARATE beings. 




By claiming the Father and the Son are one entity, I fear trinitarians are led by an antichrist spirit, which I will explain later on.


Trinitarians claim that "God the Son" became Jesus, who took on flesh and died. If so, they are, in effect, saying God simulated his humanity, which, without question, nullifies Christ's sacrifice on the cross. Whether believed, sincerely or not, it is a denial of the full humanity of the Son of God. 


It's obvious from the scriptures that God couldn't be human, even if He wanted to! But can and did produce a fully human son, fully independent of Him, with no prior existence, to accomplish His plan of salvation.


Could it be that simple? Completely... 




John's Peculiar Warning!


I strongly believe John's peculiar warning hinted at the emerging teaching of the Trinity (among other false doctrines), which is 'antichrist' in nature. 


Note carefully how John worded his warning:


"By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is (the spirit) of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world." (1 John 4:2–3) NKJV


What does it mean, "Every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God"? 


Think about it: If many saw and heard Jesus in the flesh, in what sense then can a particular spirit not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh? What is the nature of this denial? 


The problem was not whether Jesus came or not, for so many saw and heard him. Rather, it is the claim that He was God in human form. 


This was not new! When the apostle Paul miraculously healed a crippled man, the crowds in Lycaonia cried, 

"The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men! The priests of Zeus...brought oxen and garlands to offer sacrifice with the crowds (for Paul and Barnabas)." (Acts 14:8-13)


What was Paul's reaction? It was this: 

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you." (Acts 14:15) ESV


I think a similar belief was emerging, falsely claiming that Jesus was God who had come down in human form or nature.


So, here's what I think John means:


"Not confessing Jesus has come in the flesh" likely refers to the early stages of the doctrine of the Trinity creeping among believers through false teachers. 


Such a claim that God was the Son, appearing in human form, amounted to "not confessing that Jesus has come (fully) in the flesh!" 


This is important for the reasons I presented earlier, mainly this: if God did simulate His humanity, it would have nullified and denied the fully human Son who came only in the flesh. 


John warned that this form of teaching is "of the antichrist", which was coming (as part of the apostasy of the churches).


The trinity, although unscriptural and never taught by Jesus and His apostles, has been made foundational in almost all churches. Two millennia later, the trinity is alive and well, but it is "of the antichrist" and " is not of God". 


I hope that much is clear.

 




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