Soapy
Son of his Father: The Heir and Prince
Yes, that is what I mean.
I would say the purpose was so that Jesus could release the Holy Spirit into the world.
“Know thou that when the Son of Man yielded up His breath to God, the whole creation wept with a great weeping. By sacrificing Himself, however, a fresh capacity was infused into all created things. Its evidences, as witnessed in all the peoples of the earth, are now manifest before thee. The deepest wisdom which the sages have uttered, the profoundest learning which any mind hath unfolded, the arts which the ablest hands have produced, the influence exerted by the most potent of rulers, are but manifestations of the quickening power released by His transcendent, His all-pervasive, and resplendent Spirit.”
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 85-86
No, I don't think the apostles were divine, although they reflected the divine spirit of Christ.
Question.—What is the Holy Spirit?
Answer.—The Holy Spirit is the Bounty of God and the luminous rays which emanate from the Manifestations; for the focus of the rays of the Sun of Reality was Christ, and from this glorious focus, which is the Reality of Christ, the Bounty of God reflected upon the other mirrors which were the reality of the Apostles. The descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles signifies that the glorious divine bounties reflected and appeared in their reality. Moreover, entrance and exit, descent and ascent, are characteristics of bodies and not of spirits—that is to say, sensible realities enter and come forth, but intellectual subtleties and mental realities, such as intelligence, love, knowledge, imagination and thought, do not enter, nor come forth, nor descend, but rather they have direct connection.
Some Answered Questions, p. 108
25: THE HOLY SPIRIT
Trailblazer, the Spirit of God is that which the Father promised to pour out on all people (believers).I don't know if that is in biblical scriptures, but it is in the Baha'i scriptures that Jesus was the Spirit of God, which would mean that the Spirit of God is a person.
“This is, truly, that which the Spirit of God (Jesus Christ) hath announced, when He came with truth unto you, He with Whom the Jewish doctors disputed, till at last they perpetrated what hath made the Holy Spirit to lament, and the tears of them that have near access to God to flow….”
Proclamation of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 19
“WE, verily, have come for your sakes, and have borne the misfortunes of the world for your salvation. Flee ye the One Who hath sacrificed His life that ye may be quickened? Fear God, O followers of the Spirit (Jesus), and walk not in the footsteps of every divine that hath gone far astray… Open the doors of your hearts. He Who is the Spirit (Jesus) verily, standeth before them.”
Proclamation of Bahá’u’lláh, p, 92
The Spirit of God is a title for Jesus, since Jesus has God's Holy Spirit.
However, that does not mean that the Holy Spirit is a person.
The Holy Spirit is the Bounty of God that emanated from Jesus.
The Spirit of God (that which Trinitarians call, “The holy Spirit’) is that Comforter Jesus told the Apostles hd would send FROM the Father See the promise from the Father in the book of Joel… See also the book of John and the book of Acts wherein all is emphasised even from Jesus Christ, himself.
Jesus is not the Comforter, the Advocate: ‘I am sending you ANOTHER Comforter…. The Promise from the Father, which the Father said he would ‘Pour out on all flesh … in the last days!!’
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