The Holy Spirit: What The Bible Teaches About The Holy Spirit, The Spirit Of God And The Spirit Of The Lord

By: Domenico Barbera

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Synopsis: The subject of the "holy spirit", the third person of the Trinity, as the Holy Scriptures present it, is one of those arguments which, both in the past centuries as well as up to us that we live in the twenty-first century, has been the object of bitter and long polemics, for the simple fact that not everyone believes and accepts the doctrine of His "personality", since for some it is nothing other than the "active force of God" and not a real person distinct from God the Father. Therefore, knowing what the Bible has to tell us about the Holy Spirit is very important, not only to learn what the Holy Scriptures have to refer to in this regard, but also to know how they present it and with what characteristics they define it. Having an overview of the many steps that the Bible has around the Holy Spirit will primarily serve not only to have clear ideas, but also to be able to objectively evaluate what the writers of the Old and New Testaments intended to tell us about the Spirit of God. In fact, the Bible presents it, indicating it in several passages such as: "The Holy Spirit", "the Spirit of God" and "the Spirit of the Lord"