What is the Holy Spirit?

[Jarry]

Simple question. Simple answer?

 

[fallingblood]

Not really a simple answer. Probably the simplest answer would be to say that it is the embodiment of God in a form that we can experience, or claim to be able to experience.

 

[footprints]

Simple question. Simple answer?

What is the Holy Spirit? ....... This is a perceptual based, loaded question. The interpretation will differ from belief to belief. The extremist atheist (extremist irrationalist) belief will be totally opposite and equally opposed to the extremist theist (creationist) belief, as one example.

 

[Madhuri]

Either the Impersonal aspect, Consciousness
or the Female creative energy that is creation itself.

I speak from a non-Christian perspective.

 

[fallingblood]

What is the Holy Spirit? ....... This is a perceptual based, loaded question. The interpretation will differ from belief to belief. The extremist atheist (extremist irrationalist) belief will be totally opposite and equally opposed to the extremist theist (creationist) belief, as one example.

The atheist won't believe there is a Holy spirit. So yes, there will be opposite in the manner that the theist believes it exists.

 

[berrychrisc]

Simple question. Simple answer?

I like the definition given in The Yoga of Jesus: The Holy Spirit is the sacred, invisible vibratory power of God that actively sustains the universe.

 

[footprints]

The atheist won't believe there is a Holy spirit. So yes, there will be opposite in the manner that the theist believes it exists.

There is Yin and Yang, Positive and Negative, Good and Evil, Right and Wrong, Black and White et al in everything.

It is a beautiful world, meant to be shared by all, in loving peace and harmony. This is what the Holy Spirit means to me, as opposed to who or what the Holy Spirit is.

 

[logician]

Something fictionalized in the NT. There certainly is no evidence for it, or for any god for that matter.

 

[footprints]

Something fictionalized in the NT. There certainly is no evidence for it, or for any god for that matter.

Whether or not something is fictionalised, has no relevance to truth it contains, and that which can be scientifically tested and acknowledged.

However you are not alone, many people thow the baby out with the bathwater. The Spanish did it with the Maya, the English did it with the indigenous of North America, Canada and Australia. You are in some mighty company.