The Deity and Personality of the Holy Spirit
The deity and personality of the Holy Spirit is a great topic to consider. Yet often Christians do not do so. Sometimes they think of his gifts and other times they may focus on his fruit. But do they take time to worship him as God, to wonder and marvel at who he is? The deity The Holy Spirit is named in the baptismal formula at the close of the Gospel of Matthew as one of the three divine persons in the Trinity. He is equal with the other two as far as divine attributes are concerned. The divine attributes can be classified in several ways, but one classification is known as the incommunicable and the communicable attributes. The incommunicable are attributes that only God has while the communicable appear in creatures, whether angels or men. The incommunicable attributes are God’s eternal existence and the three omnis – omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence. Does the Bible say that the Holy Spirit has them? The writer of Hebrews says this in Hebrews 9:14: ‘how much m...