QUOTE (ami @ Mar 14 2009, 03:52 AM)
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My friend and I have been discussing and debating for the past three days on who the Holy Spirit is and if God live in people. My friend who is a Christian says the Holy Spirit is the breath of God, as it is mentioned in Genesis when God breathed in to Adam’s nostrils to give him life. But I say that the Holly spirit is God himself. My friend believes that God can not live in a person. I told my friend that since the Holly spirit is God, he ( the holly spirit) live in us when we believe in God and his only son. I would like to hear more on what you think on this.
To understand this you must know that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one, and also distinct. This is “Spiritually” understood.A note here; this could easily turn into a debate concerning the trinity, however for the sake of the post I would like to say that those that are truly Gods children understand the “unity” of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and without speculation accept that they are unified as one.QUOTE
Joh 10:30 I and my Father are one.Eph 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; Eph 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, Eph 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
We are completely unable to receive salvation, understand truth, overcome sin, or live righteously without the Spirit of God in us. QUOTE
Ac 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.Zec 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.Ro 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit,
if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.Ro 8:10 ¶ And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.Ro 8:11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Joh 14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. When you see in the Word the titles, Holy Spirit, Spirit of God, Spirit of Christ, this is one Spirit not many or different. See the scripture above; “there is one Spirit.”When we are “saved, born again, resurrected unto life,” as the Word says, our spirit is reborn from “spiritual death,” and resurrected to life in Christ. Before salvation we are “spiritually dead.” However without the “indwelling” of the Holy Spirit we CANNOT grow and mature in Christ. For example (and simplicities sake) how would a baby born of flesh and blood feed or raise itself without help? So how would our “infant spirits” grow and mature without the Guidance and influence of the Holy Spirit?This is a very important fact to understand, and many will not, for they believe that they can find the knowledge or truth of God by their own understanding, intelligence, and efforts. This is a great lie to believe we do not need the Spirit of God to learn of God.QUOTE
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Yes the Spirit of God must dwell in us;QUOTE
Ro 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.Joh 7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)Mr 1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Being that we have the Spirit of Christ in us, we are to be like minded and therefore unified in Christ, in one body. The same Spirit, mind, purpose, and perfect unity is what we are maturing towards, as Christ is perfectly unified with the Father.QUOTE
Joh 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Hope that helps.God bless,General