2635.—The Personality of the Holy Spirit.—
By Editor
Our correspondent, it seems to us, is within the bounds of Scripture and reason when he says he can not understand how God's Holy Spirit can be omnipresent and still be a personal being as we understand personality. The "counsel of peace" is "between them both," two persons, Father and Son; if there were three persons, equal persons, the counsel of peace would be among the three. Then, too, God says, "I will pour out My Spirit." Then, too, in the Greek Testament he notes that when the Bible speaks of the Spirit, the neuter form, to, of the definite article is used. There are other things which he thinks point to the same conclusion. The only way the Spirit can be spoken of as a person, it seems to us, is the great fact that the Spirit makes present the Godhead. God speaks, God blesses, God strengthens, through the Spirit. See John 14:21-23. The "He" of John 14:16 in both instances refers to God; God gives the Comforter, that God may abide with His people. That Spirit clothes itself with angels and men, and thus comes in personal form. But ever it is the representation of God. "He shall not speak of Himself."