Here is a damnable quotation of heresy and satanic lies if I've ever read one.
The Holy Spirit IS GOD.
Millions of men and women have bent their knee unto the Almighty and asked His forgiveness.
AND THEY GOT IT.
How did they know this? It was given to them by the Holy Spirit.
Read the following very carefully.
NO ONE BUT GOD CAN FORGIVE SIN.
Jesus did. Why? Because He was God.
The Father does because Christ paid the price for our sins upon the cross.
The Holy Spirit does. Why? BECAUSE HE IS GOD !
To deny that the Father can forgive sins is a satanic lie.
To deny that Jesus cannot forgive is a delusion of the evil one.
To deny that the Holy Spirit is not God and cannot forgive sin is a lie from the very pit of hell.
It leaves every single confessing Christian throughout two thousand years of history is peril of damnation because YOU SAY that the Holy Spirit is not God and has not forgiven us.
GET THEE BEHIND US SATAN AND LOSE YOUR LYING TONGUE.
If the holy spirit is God, then why does it not have a name, for God's name is Jehovah (Ex 6:3; Ps 83:18), the Son as Jesus (Luke 1:31), but not the holy spirit ? Too, why is the word
pneu´ma (Greek) at times means "wind" at John 3:8, something invisible but whose effects can be seen and then rendered as "spirit" in the last part of the verse ? You have made broad unsupported statements, which is like the religious leaders in Jesus day did.(Matt 12:1, 2)
At Genesis 1:2, it says simply: "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."(
King James Bible) How can the holy spirit be God and yet be called "the Spirit
of God" ? The wording means possession, for the holy spirit is possessed or "owned" by God, it being his applied power that is never latent.
Jesus, in teaching his disciples what to pray for, gives an illustration of a man that went to friend asking for "three loaves" of bread and because of his "bold persistence", the friend gave him the things needed.(Luke 11:5-8) Jesus then likens holy spirit to
a gift, saying: "Accordingly I say to you, Keep on asking...keep on seeking....keep on knocking, and it will be opened to you.....Indeed, which father is there among you who, if his son asks for a fish, will perhaps hand him a serpent instead of a fish ?....Therefore, if
you, although being wicked, know how to
give good gifts to your children, how much more so will the
Father in heaven
give holy spirit to those asking him ! "(Luke 11:9-13)
At Isaiah 44:3, the holy spirit is compared to water, with God saying: "For I shall
pour out water upon the thirsty one, and trickling streams upon the dry place. I shall
pour out my spirit upon your seed, and my blessing upon your descendants." Just as water is not a person, but something nonliving, but necessary, so likewise is the holy spirit not a person, as you say God, but is his active force or applied power that he can "pour out" on whom he wishes. Is this not what happened on the day of Pentecost, for Acts 2:3, 4 says: "And tongues as if of fire became visible to them and were distributed about, and one sat upon each one of them, and they all
became filled with holy spirit and started to speak with different tongues, just as the spirit was granting them to make utterance."
In addition, following Jesus baptism, Luke 4:1 says: "Now Jesus,
full of holy spirit, turned away from the Jordan, and he was led about by the spirit in the wilderness." Was Jesus filled with another member of the "Godhead" ? No, but rather was empowered by God's active force or applied power to fulfill his ministry, just as the 120 on the day of Pentecost was given strength by holy spirit to accomplish the preaching work that Jesus had started.(Acts 1:8)