THE HOLY GHOST

  It may be that even the apostles failed to understand how the Holy Ghost interacts with mankind. The “Holy Ghost” is “hagios pneuma” in the Greek, ultimately meaning “Sacred Presence” as all the definitions are considered. However, that “Presence,” according to Strong’s Dictionary is described as a “Breeze.” Strong also indicated that the pneuma has personality, and as such, would be a person.
  Strictly speaking, the early Church and Strong’s understanding seems to be oversimplified. A “person” in archaic times was a “bodily appearance” (Webster’s Dictionary.) Early writers refer to “homeostasis” in describing the Holy Trinity. Homeostasis is “equilibrium between the independent elements of a group” (ibid). Thus, the Holy Trinity is the elemental substances of God. “Substances” is used because substance is a “fundamental quality,” and applies to both the physical and non-physical in this context (ibid).
  My conclusion is that the Holy Trinity, or “Sacred Three-in-One” is not three “Persons,” but three Qualities in One Existence. The “Father” is the Creative Quality of God, and creativity indicates imagination. Hence, the “Father” Quality is God’s supreme, omniscient Intellect or Mind.
 The Son is then, the Appearance of God. What God looks like. God in bodily form, or God’s Person. As God’s Person, Jesus is the One Existence of God who has three qualities: Mind, Body, and Spirit. We know that because when Jesus died, he “gave up the Pneuma” (Mark 15:37). (Hold that thought for a moment.) As the Word who spoke (John 1), Jesus was creative. He is Mind. People think of Jesus as only God’s Flesh, but he is also the Mind and Spirit of God. Jesus is the “Three in One Existence of God.”
  Forty-eight times in the New Testament, Jesus, in speaking about Himself, said, “I AM” (English) from the Greek “Ego Eimei.” In Hebrew that is Hayah – which means simply “Exist.” God said, “I AM WHO I AM” or “Hayah ‘Asher Hayah.”  Jesus, therefore, is Hayah. Jesus, the Name, is “Ya Yasha’,“ in the Hebrew, and “God Saves” in the English. Hence, Jesus IS God, and His purpose Is salvation. God’s Flesh would be the substitutional sacrifice for our own weak flesh.
  The Greek word, “Pneuma” is used throughout for the New Testament for both “Spirit” and “Ghost.” The King James Version is the only translation that uses “Ghost” and “Spirit” for Pneuma, but perhaps not interchangeably but in context.
  Jesus, the very Flesh of God, contained the Sacred Essence of God which we call the Holy Spirit. Adam’s flesh had the Spirit of God breathed into him: God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7). Living soul in the Hebrew is “chay nephesh” or “animated being.” 
  “Ruwach” in the Hebrew is used for “Spirit” in the Old Testament (e.g., Gen 1:2). That Spirit is the Power of God which animates. Hence, “soul” differs from “spirit.” It seems that God animated or made Adam a “living being” through the use of His Spiritual Presence. Adam had breathed into his body, God’s Spirit. Perhaps, the soul is a body-shaped container which for Adam was surely filled.
  Eve was taken from Adam’s side. In scientific terms, a female “clone” was made of Adam, and she was “woman” (of man). Because Adam had God’s Spirit, it is a fair assumption that Eve did as well. God warned Adam that if he sinned, that he would die. If the Spirit animated Adam, then “death” is the de-animation of Adam, and God exhumed His Spirit from Adam.
  Thus, although physically alive, Adam was spiritually dead.  God’s warning to Adam applied to all of his flesh. Thus, Eve died too because she was “of Adam.” With the “original sin” mankind’s soul was emptied. As Eve was the mother of all, Adam was the father of all. Our flesh is his flesh, and when everyone is born, they are born in “iniquity” (Psalm 51:5).
  “Iniquity” is a state of immorality, or inherently evil. Thus, the animated being is generated with an empty container, awaiting to be filled. Gradually, Satan breathes his spirit into the being, and he animates everyone. “All have sinned” (Rom 3:23) and hence deserve death. “Death,” I have shown, is a being without the Spirit of God within their soul, but is also, a soul with Satan’s spirit residing in it (John 8:44). Christians live according to the character of the Spirit, and non-Christians live according to the character the Devil. The “Devil” is the spirit of Satan residing in human beings, until that spirit is exhumed.
  The soul is a “container” which must “hold” some spirit. There are two types of spirits: Right Spirit and wrong or evil spirit. Since the soul of human beings can hold one or the other, but not both conclusively, care must be taken to allow one of the other to be the master of the human domain: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other” (Mat 6:24a). It may be that “babes in Christ” as they are sanctified, increase in Holy Spirit and decrease in unholy spirit. (We will consider later the phrase “filled with the Holy Ghost.”)
  As children of the Devil, the iniquitous are evil which the Bible refers to as “Demons.” There can be one or legions of demons (Mark 5:9). There can be either (1) an empty soul, (2) one demon in the sould, (3) many demons in the soul, or (4) only the Holy Spirit in the soul. Perhaps, the Holy Spirit specific to our body is what the KJV would call the “Holy Ghost.” “Ghost” is specific to the human animated form.
  Satan is not like God at all. God has omnipresence whereas Satan does not have that power. His “spirit(s)” are the demons that are individual beings, and the following  is ambiguous, but that they are our equals, and both beings are lower than God.
  Because we will not marry as angels do not when in Heaven, it makes sense that human beings are as angel beings. Angels, which are messengers of God, have the Word in them. Those who are messengers of Satan have the anti-Word in them. God’s “Messenger” has the Spirit of God within just as Adam had, and seems to be spiritually equal to original Adam, and that is “glorious.”
  On the other hand, Satan’s angels are “Messengers” with evil news — that against Christ. Those who have demons are antichrists as is written: “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son” (1 John 2:22). In that sinners have the demon-spirits who are messengers of Satan, they must be cast out. The soul must be emptied before the Spirit of God can enter into the soul.
  In KJV context, the “Holy Spirit” is the overall “Sacred Presence” of God, but the “Holy Ghost” is the specific Spirit that would fill a human soul. God’s Flesh (Jesus) was generated by the God’s Creativeness (His Mind), and by the Power of a specific “Pneuma” – the Spirit of God that would occupy the Body of God. Perhaps, it seems, that Spirit of God took on the form of Jesus’s body and became Jesus’s specific animated Spirit. How did I deduce that?

She (Mary) was found with child of the Holy Ghost. (Mat 1:18)

  This is getting lengthy; I will continue it tomorrow. It will surely take the reader as long to consider this as it has for me. Much of what has been handed down to modern-day Christians is from Catholicism. Perhaps English cannot describe the Textus Receptus adequately, or perhaps I am wrong! However, translations are merely that. That is why there are so many.  That the Holy Trinity is Three Persons seems at odds with scripture, because Jesus is the Person of God. The other two substances are Mind and Spirit, or Thought and Power.

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