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For many Christians today there exists, and has for a long time, a controversy over the Holy Spirit. Many are divided on this issue. One side says “There are only two Beings in the Godhead” and the other side says “No, there are three Beings in the Godhead.” In order to understand this issue, we decided to produce some considerations.

First, let us try to imagine the following analogy.

Let us say there is a car. In this example the car represents the Godhead. Inside that car is three persons. Each of them are distinct, having their own personality and being. Yet they are together within that car. They communicate and have the same purpose. They are of one like mind with the goal of  driving to their location. 

Their  destination is the Kingdom. As they drive they will pick up passengers (those with their thumbs up asking for a ride) to the Kingdom. Many others ignore this free drive with the Experts who know the way.

 The Scriptures speak of the Holy Spirit.

“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (John 14:25-26)

“In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.“(Eph. 1:11-14)

“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.” (Romans 8 :26-27)

“Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.” (John 16:7-12)

It is noteworthy to see that the Lord Himself refers to the Holy Spirit as “he” and “him”. The agrument from the non-trintarian view is that there is no such he or him of the Holy Spirit. They say that it is just Christ’s essence, force or energy. Or it is God the Father’s as well. In other words the Holy Spirit is not a distinct seperate Being having His own personality. The idea that the HS is a person as God and Jesus is a person is dismissed.

Well as always lets try and let our King speak on this issue and then maybe we can see more clearly about the Holy Spirit.

Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing. It is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God. ” (John 8:54)

Here we see that Christ will not glorify Himself as it is nothing. Now let us go to the revealing statement from our King —

“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.” (John 16:13-14)

Once again we see the continual reference from our King to the Holy Spirit as “he”.  But notice that this “he” will glorify Christ. As we know Jesus will not glorify Himself, it proves that the Holy Spirit is a Being able to glorify Jesus! Powerful.

So to summarize our analogy helps to show a mental picture of the Godhead and Jesus, the King Himself reveals to us all we need to know. There are THREE BEINGS in the Godhead, not two. The Holy Spirit is a person just like God and Jesus are persons.

 “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”(1 John, 5:7)

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