Acts 5:3-4 - But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
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Wotsup, you have isolated a passage of Scripture that suggests the holy spirit is God. I can find Scriptures that say holy spirit is God's finger.
(Matthew 12:28) But if it is by means of God’s spirit that I expel the demons, the Kingdom of God has really overtaken you.
(Luke 11:20) But if it is by means of God’s finger that I expel the demons, the Kingdom of God has really overtaken you.
These are mere figures of speech to teach us about God.
(Matthew 3:11) I, for my part, baptize you with water because of your repentance, but the one coming after me is stronger than I am, whose sandals I am not worthy to take off. That one will baptize you with holy spirit and with fire.
Do you think Jesus was going to baptize some with God and fire?
(Acts 2:3, 4) And tongues as if of fire became visible to them and were distributed, and one came to rest on each one of them, 4 and they all became filled with holy spirit and started to speak in different languages, just as the spirit enabled them to speak.
This was the occasion when Jesus' disciples were anointed with holy spirit. On the occasion that Jesus was anointed holy spirit was seen in the form of a dove. Never has it been seen in the form of a person.
Personification is when we speak of something inanimate as if it were alive. For example, the Bible tells us, “Death ruled as king from Adam down to Moses”; “grief and sighing must flee away”; “true wisdom itself keeps crying aloud in the very street.” (Romans 5:14; Isaiah 35:10; Proverbs 1:20) Death, grief, sighing and wisdom cannot really rule, flee or cry out. But speaking as if they did, the Bible paints vivid mental pictures, easily visualized and remembered.
The Bible says God is a Spirit . - John 4:24. Nowhere does it say God is the spirit. Nor does it say holy spirit is God.
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