an invisible force that causes visible results
Neither the Spirit of God nor that of man is a force, but a person.
Gob breathes into us His breath and Spirit of life, and we become living souls, not forces.
The Son on earth was the express image of God's Person. God is a Spirit. The Spirit of God is a Person, not an inanimate blind force. A force does not see and think and do by will. The wind was used as an analogy of the Spirit of God, in how we are inspired of Him, whensoever we here Him, and so we know He is true, even as the wind when it blows.
Only those refusing God the Spirit would dive into a long study to try and produce the Spirit of God as a force and not a person.
It is a perfect example of ever learning and never coming to the truth of God by that learning, because the purpose of that learning is to reject the truth of God plainly written in Scripture.
The Word was God, and the Word was made flesh. There is no amount of deep dive into the Greek, nor carefully long and hard study of words to reject the simple Scripture as written.
One either believes it, or doesn't.
The name of Jehovah is nowhere mentioned in Scripture, after His new name is called Jesus by Scripture.
Jesus is the name called of God, that is above every name ever named.
Either believe it or not.
The real question is why reject simple Scripture as written? Why idolize a past new name of God, that was Jehovah, and so reject that risen God to worship, Who's name is now Jesus?
Mystery Babylon
The Bible uses the words "the spirit of God" and
not "the spirit is God", as well as "God is a Spirit" at John 4:24 (denoting that God is not fleshly, but is an unseen spirit, in which humans cannot peer into the spirit realm with their eyes).
For example, the Scriptures uses the words "the spirit of man" at Zechariah 12:1 that says: "A pronouncement: “The word of Jehovah concerning Israel,” declares Jehovah, the One who stretched out the heavens, who laid the foundation of the earth, and
who formed the spirit of man within him."
Does this mean that another "person" was placed in man by Jehovah God ? No. Rather, it means that Jehovah placed a life force within him, to activate him, to give him life, just as Jehovah has a life force within him that is able to create everything we see, extending beyond himself to any place in the universe, unlike man who spirit goes no further than as far as his hands can reach.
At Genesis 2:7, it says: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became (not placed within as something mysteriously separate, as the churches of Christendom teach) a living soul."(
King James Bible)
Only when "the breath of life" was put within the first man Adam, could he now become a "living soul", for before the breath of life that started the life force (like turning on the "start" switch on an electrical appliance) was placed within Adam, he was a dead soul.(Note: the Hebrew word for soul is
nephesh, that literally means "a breather", so that when anything that is "a breather", stops breathing and no longer taking in "life-giving" oxygen, they die)
Of John the Baptist, Luke 1:14, says that "he will be filled with with holy spirit even from before birth", being moved from before birth to feel its force (see Luke 1:41 that says that "as Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the infant in her womb leaped, and Elizabeth was filled with holy spirit"), so that when grown (or about 30 years old), he went forward to fulfill his assigned role as the one who "will go ahead of him (or the Messiah) with Elijah's spirit and power".(Luke 1:17; Note: power is directly tied in with spirit here, denoting that it is a power that moved John the Baptist to do Jehovah's will by preparing a people in advance of the Messiah just as Elijah was moved by Jehovah's spirit to take his stand for Jehovah on Mt Carmel before an audience of Baal worshippers; see 1 Kings 18)
Of John the Baptist father, Zechariah, Luke 1:67 says that he was "filled holy spirit" so that he was moved to say: "Let Jehovah be praised, the God of Israel, because he has turned his attention to his people and has brought them deliverance........But as for you, young child, you will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go ahead of Jehovah to prepare his ways (Isa 40:3), to give knowledge of salvation to his people by forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender compassion of our God. With this compassion a daybreak will visit us from on high, to give light to those sitting in darkness and death’s shadow and to guide our feet in the way of peace.”(Luke 1:68, 76-79)
If the word "spirit" is a person, or another "God" as many suppose, then how could Jesus be "full of holy spirit" ?(Luke 4:1) Could Jesus be filled with another "member of the Godhead", another "God" ? Is that reasonable ? No.(Note: the English word "Godhead" is a mistranslation of three Greek words
(1) theotes at Col 2:9,
(2) theiotes at Romans 1:20, and
(3) and
theion at Acts 17:29, for all three Greek words are accurately rendered as "divine quality", "Godship" or "Divine Being")
Rather, Jesus was filled with Jehovah's active force, a force that gave Jesus the power to heal people (Matt 8:1-17; 9:35; Luke 8:43-48), to resurrect them from the dead.(Luke 7:11-15; John 11:38-44), to cause a fig tree to wither.(Matt 21:19; Note: please remember what Ps 104:30 says: "If you send out your spirit, they are created", or that a person or "living creature" comes to life, having a life force or the flow or movement of elements within a person as "one" that causes them to start breathing, such as the heart pumping blood for oxygen and foods throughout the body, and
not another person is place within them)
At 2 Peter 1:21, it says that "prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were moved by holy spirit." With Jesus using the Greek word
pneuma as both "wind" and "spirit" at John 3:8, he established that it means an unseen force that produces visible results.
Just as gravity, electromagnetism, the Higgs field, the weak and strong nuclear force, etc, the wind are unseen forces that moves things, so likewise of God's holy spirit.
And the name Jehovah is in the Bible some 7,000 times, some 2,000 times more than God and Lord put to together.
The name Jehovah is in the
King James Bible four times
(1) Ex 6:3,
(2) Ps 83:18,
(3) Isa 12:2,
(4) Isa 26:4. The 2011
Divine Name King James Bible rightfully has it some 7,000 times where it is found in the most ancient Hebrew manuscripts. The 1903
American Standard Version likewise has it as the same.
The
New World Translation has it 6,979 times in the Hebrew Scriptures (commonly but inaccurately called "the Old Testament") and 237 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures (commonly but inaccurately called "the New Testament"), when quoting from the Hebrew Scriptures or it is seen as accurate.
