Gender neutral (since God does not have a sex and does not procreate) is not the same thing as "not a person".
"When He the Spirit of Truth comes - HE will guide you into all truth" is the action of a person not necessarily of a male. HE will not speak on His own - but whatever HE hears HE will speak. So that person does have "His own" Word, His own thought - in addition to accurately conveying the word and thought of someone else.
We do not say "the phone will not speak its own word or convey its own thought - but the phone will convey whatever I speak into it" because that would be nonsensical.
Rom 8:27
And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God.
We do not say that someone "knows the mind of the telephone".
Acts 15 "it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to lay on you any other burden"
We do not say "it seemed good to the telephone and to me that I tell you the truth".
It would make no sense.
John 14 "IF I go I will send you ANOTHER comforter" - We do not say "IF I go away I will send you another telephone just like me"[/QUOTE
Gender neutral (since God does not have a sex and does not procreate) is not the same thing as "not a person".
"When He the Spirit of Truth comes - HE will guide you into all truth" is the action of a person not necessarily of a male. HE will not speak on His own - but whatever HE hears HE will speak. So that person does have "His own" Word, His own thought - in addition to accurately conveying the word and thought of someone else.
We do not say "the phone will not speak its own word or convey its own thought - but the phone will convey whatever I speak into it" because that would be nonsensical.
Rom 8:27
And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God.
We do not say that someone "knows the mind of the telephone".
Acts 15 "it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to lay on you any other burden"
We do not say "it seemed good to the telephone and to me that I tell you the truth".
It would make no sense.
John 14 "IF I go I will send you ANOTHER comforter" - We do not say "IF I go away I will send you another telephone just like me"
you have ignored what I said regarding the Greek manuscripts. Did John use the masculine pronoun despite the neuter gender of the word “spirit”? Was his purpose to show that the spirit is indeed a person? Why not reread
John chapter 16:7,8? What is the antecedent of the pronoun “he”? In other words what word is before the word "he", "Comforter[
pa·raʹkle·tos] or Spirit [
pneuʹma] Is it not the word “Comforter”? Yes, and the Greek word so rendered is
pa·raʹkle·tos and is masculine in gender. Rightly, then, John used masculine pronouns in this passage because grammatical usage required it.
John did not use masculine pronouns when the antecedent was actually the neuter word
pneuʹma (spirit). This can readily be seen from the readings of literal translations, such as the one by Rotherham (Rotherham Emphasized Bible). At
John 14:16, 17, Rotherham renders Jesus’ words as follows: “I will request the Father, and Another Advocate [
pa·raʹkle·tos] will he give unto you, that he may be with you age-abidingly, —the Spirit [
pneuʹma] of truth,— which the world cannot receive, because it beholdeth it(not he or him) not nor getteth to know it(not he or him). But ye are getting to know it(not he or him); because with you it(not he or him) abideth, and in you it(not he or him) is.” Notice that the pronoun is masculine in gender (“he”) when the antecedent is the masculine noun
pa·raʹkle·tos but neuter (“it”) when the antecedent is the neuter noun
pneuʹma. John doesn't use the word "he" in regard to the word spirit but only to words like advocate or comforter. You and others can ignore this all you want.