Is the Holy Spirit God?

Is The Holy Spirit God?

Many quasi-Christian sects (e.g., Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, etc.) deny the Divinity of the Holy Spirit and argue it is found nowhere in the Bible. But is this true? Karlo Broussard explains why the answer is no by giving biblical examples that show the Holy Spirit is God.

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About Karlo Broussard:

Karlo holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in theology from Catholic Distance University and the Augustine Institute, and is currently working on his masters in philosophy with Holy Apostles College and Seminary. He also worked for several years in an apprenticeship with nationally known author and theologian Fr. Robert J. Spitzer at the Magis Center of Reason and Faith.

Karlo is one of the most dynamic and gifted Catholic speakers on the circuit today, communicating with precision of thought, a genuine love for God, and an enthusiasm that inspires.

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In every family there’s always that one person that sort of gets left out. The family of the Blessed Trinity has one of those—it's the Holy Spirit.

When dealing with quasi-Christian sects, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, many of us are equipped to defend the divinity of Jesus, but very seldom are we ready to give a reason for our belief in the divinity of the Holy Spirit.

But no more! Enough is enough. So, let’s look at the evidence.
Consider 1Corinthians 2:11 where Paul says, “no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” How can the Spirit comprehend the infinite thoughts of God unless he’s infinite? If the Holy Spirit is omniscient, then he is equal to God.

Another example is Acts 5:1-4. Here Peter rebukes Ananias and Sapphira for lying to the Holy Spirit but then a few sentences later says they lied to God. How can lying to the Holy Spirit be the same as lying to God unless the Holy Spirit is God?

We also can look at Hebrews 10:15-17 where the text quotes God’s promise of a new covenant in Jeremiah 31:31-33 but prefaces it by saying, “The Holy Spirit also bears witness…saying.” Notice God’s words are the Holy Spirit’s words. Clearly the Bible teaches the Holy Spirit is God.

So, the Holy Spirit no longer has to be the forgotten family member when we’re evangelizing. With verses like these, we can give reason why we profess him to be the Lord and giver of life.

For Catholic Answers, I’m Karlo Broussard. Thanks for watching.

[samalexandershanks]

Excellent video, thank you!

May the Holy Spirit come upon all who watch this and ignite their hearts so that they burn with the desire for Christian perfection.

[canderssonswedican]

Only a living cognizant being can have intellect, can speak, can listen, can be tempted, can be eternal, can be blasphemed, can teach, can be grieved, etc....You cannot lie to the wind, the wind cannot reason, it cannot speak, it cannot dwell in you. Only a living intelligent being has the faculty to perceive and comprehend meaning...

{Attributes-Holy Spirit}
1 Corinthians 2:10-11 {has intellect}
1 Corinthians 2:13 12:11 {assigns gifts}
Romans 8:27 {intercedes for us}
Hebrews 3:7 {speaks}
1 Timothy 4:1
John 14:26 {teaches}
Luke 12:12
John 14:26 {listens}
Acts 8:29 10:19, 20 (says I) 13:2 21:11
Acts 5:9 {can be tempted}
Acts 9:31 {Comforts}
Acts 5:3 (Can be lied to)
Matthew 12:31-32 {can be blasphemed}
Hebrews 9:14 {is eternal}
Ephesians 4:30 {can be grieved, has emotion}

Hebrews 9:14 {The Holy Spirit has always been }
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 9:14 {The Omnipresence of the Spirit}
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?

1 Corinthians 2:10 {The omniscience of the Spirit}
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

1 Corinthians 12:8-11 { The Omnipotence of The Spirit }
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

Romans 8:11 {Holy Spirit raised Jesus from the dead}
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.

John 1:1, 2, 3, 14 {The Holy Spirit admits the Word created all}
In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.
He was in [the] beginning with God. All things through him came into being, and without him came into being not even one [thing] which has come into being.
And the Word flesh became, and tabernacled among us,

I Corinthians 6:19 {Holy Ghost dwells in us}
What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Job 26:13 33:4 {Holy Spirit creates}
By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

Genesis 1:2
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Luke 12:11, 12 {Holy Ghost speaks thru us} Mark 13:11
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. For it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.


Psalm 95:7-11 {God makes the statement}
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart, as in the
provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: unto whom
I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Hebrews 3:7-11 {Holy Spirit makes the statement}
Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith,
Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
When your fathers temped me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, they do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
So I sware in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest.

Luke 1:68-70 {Lord God spoke thru prophets} II Timothy 3:16
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God,

2 Peter 1:21 {Holy Spirit spoke thru prophets }
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Isaiah 6:8, 9 (God said it)
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I; send me.
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

Acts 28:25 (Holy Spirit said it)
....Well spake the Holy Ghost by Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers, Saying, Go unto this people, and say,
Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:


Acts 5:3, 4 {The Holy Spirit is God}
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.


Genesis 1:26
And God said; Let us make man in our Image

Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one anothers speech.


Mark 3:28-29
I promise you that any of the sinful things you say or do can be forgiven, no matter how terrible those things are. But if you speak against the Holy Spirit, you can never be forgiven. That sin will be held against you forever.” —Ouch

In His service,

[rudolfberki]

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God and of His Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

The Scriptures tell us that the Holy Spirit is the 'Spirit of God' (Gen. 1:2; 41:38; Ex. 31:3; 35:31; Num. 24:2; 1 Sam. 10:10; 19:20, 23; 2 Chron. 24:20; Job 27:3; Ezek. 11:24; Mat. 3:16; 12:28; etc.) or the 'Spirit of the Lord God' (Isa. 21:1) and the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:19; 1 Pet. 1:11), and not a separate divine being
from the Father and the Son, as it never refers to it as the 'Lord' or 'God' the Holy Spirit.

Also, in Galatians 4:6 we read, I quote,

"... God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." (KJV)

This text begs at least two questions:

1. Is the Son [of God] holy? Answer, Yes!

2. If the Son [of God] is holy, is His Spirit holy? Answer, Yes!

Now if the Spirit of the Son of God, that is Jesus Christ, is holy, would it be fair to says, God has sent the Holy Spirit of His Son, Jesus Christ into our hearts? Absolutely!

So God [the Father] has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts and not a mysterious separate being. If we read this scripture correctly, then we realize In the Scriptures we find ONLY two divine beings, and not three: God the Father and His Son, (called in Scripture the Son of God, ) Jesus Christ. So the Holy Spirit Jesus Christ promised is Himself, His presence with us. (John 14 - 16)

There is not a single scripture that calls the Son of God, 'god the son' and the Holy Spirit, 'lord' or 'god the holy spirit'; therefore, 'god the son' and 'god the holy spirit' are false pagan gods invented by Satan himself, that is the 'trinity' through which he claims worship which belongs to God the Father and His Son ALONE.

[rideforever]

What Paul meant is that when the HS is within you only then do you comprehend God.
He did not mean that the HS comprehended God ... because then it's not your business.
The question Paul is answering is ... how can I comprehend God? And Paul says that you don't unless the HS is within you, only then do you understand God.
So in the end it is you who is comprehending God, and the function of the HS is to link you together so that you don't see just with mortal eyes.

[VitoHoffa]

The holy spirit is God the Bible explains it as an different person from the father and the son.

[winder]

The Holy Spirit IS God (as is Jesus, and the Father), but MARY is NOT. One mediator...

[claudiozanella]

The Holy Spirit is simply God who is in the form of a spirit ("God is a spirit") rather than in his "normal form". We are thus absolutely talking about the same almighty God. Thus, in reality the Trinity is a Duality. The Trinity doctrine is false because illogical (even a kid can understand that Father and Son cannot have a same age) and contrary to the teachings of the gospels, (Jesus is clearly not omnipotent). I have no doubt it will die in the future. I believe that the almighty God is in a remote past "before the creation of the world" ("you loved me From there He has the power to reach us and interact with us in the form of a spirit ("God is a spirit"). God does NOT GO BEYOND that point of time (" the world has not known you") this is why nobody has ever seen Him. Jesus WAS that almighty God, this is why He still is the only one God, even without power. He is alone in heaven.

[tomashromnik]

Unless The Holy Spirit is The Father Himself! No separate entity.

[looknheal]

The trinity is a false teaching. The worship of the holy spirit is the worship of angels. The angel of God's presence is the holy spirit. According to Isa 63:9-10

[cbooth]

Does the Catholic Church say the holy spirit is God? Answer: NO! According to the Catholic Athanasian Creed, the holy spirit is one of three persons that make up a trinitarian "one God." As the creed says: "[The Father, Son, and holy spirit] ARE ONE GOD." So, if it takes THREE PERSONS to make a single trinitarian deity, how can one of those persons be God all by himself?

But, wait. There's more! According to a number of Catholic sources, the holy spirit isn't even considered by the Bible to be a person! Consider what they say:

1. “Although this spirit is often described in personal terms, it seems quite clear that the sacred writers [of the Hebrew Scriptures] never conceived or presented this spirit as a distinct person” (Edmund Fortman, The Triune God, p. 9).

2. “Nowhere in the Old Testament do we find any clear indication of a Third Person” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912, Vol. 15, p. 49).

3. “The Jews never regarded the spirit as a person; nor is there any solid evidence that any Old Testament writer held this view…The Holy Spirit is usually presented in the Synoptic gospels (Matt., Mark, Luke) and in Acts as a divine force or power” (Edmund Fortman,  The Triune God, pp. 6, 15).

4. “The Old Testament clearly does not envisage God’s spirit as a person…God’s spirit is simply God’s power. If it is sometimes represented as being distinct from God, it is because the breath of Yahweh acts exteriorly…The majority of New Testament texts reveal God’s spirit as something, not someone; this is especially seen in the parallelism between the spirit and the power of God” (New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967, Vol. 13, pp. 574, 575).

5. “On the whole the New Testament, like the Old, speaks of the spirit as a divine energy or power” (W.E. Addis and Thomas Arnold,  A Catholic Dictionary, 1960, p. 810).

6. “The third Person was asserted at a Council of Alexandria in 362…and finally by the Council of Constantinople of 381” (A Catholic Dictionary, p. 812).

At the admission of A Catholic Dictionary, the holy spirit didn't become a person until the Councils of Alexandria and Constantinople in the years of 362 and 381 respectively.

So, since the holy spirit is not a person, but a "divine power or force, " how can it be said that the holy spirit has divinity? The video guy is as wrong as two left shoes.