Catholic Priest Explains the SIGNS of the Holy Spirit | Bishop Barron
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- In this video, Bishop Barron explains the signs manifested by the Spirit, in people, that they do, in fact, have the Spirit.
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As a Protestant, I want to thank Bishop Barron for this sermon. Thank you for keeping to the text of Scripture so that millions can say Amen. Blessings from the UK.
God bless Bishop Barron
God bless you from Uk who were not baptized in the catholic faith yet believe in the work and words of Jesus Amen❤✝️🙏
Catholics keep to scripture..
Bishop Barron is a modernist.
@getrit3007..yeah u didnt get it right ..isnt.today the sabbath day...? enuf said.
I love my Catholic faith. 🙏🩵
I experienced the hand of God in my life today. It was a small miracle. A healing. What joy! Thank you god.
God not god. Sorry for the correction, think about the difference. I don’t mean to offend!
MayGod keep Blessing you ❤
I don't think there is big n small miracle..you received yours the way you wanted we glorify him
Joy is an indication of the presence of the Holy Spirit.. Thank you Bishop Barron.❤
How about ( Acts2:4 ) NABRE, ( Acts 10:44-48 ) NABRE, ( Acts 19: 5-7 ) NABRE. Why didn't he mention these, this why I'm no longer a Catholic!!
@@Lostandfoundrecipes-lz2mmIT WAS NOT IN THIS TALK, BUT IN HiS OTHER TALKS, Follow His Other Talks. Peace be with you
Yes, the Holy Spirit came into the world after the death of Jesus. Thank you.
It's like children...they are always in joy ...radiant and contagious.....Holy Spirit present .
The Lord God does wonderful amazing things for us if you let him steer you ❤
Light casts out darkness
Listening to this message, I feel like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. I have been searching everywhere for something that was in my home, the Church, all along. Thank you.
The Holy Spirit has always alluded me. Bishop Barron has helped to grasp it better.
If I have the faith to move mountains, Paul says, but I have not love, I'm nothing.
Beautiful sums up the whole thing.
Thank you, Bishop Barron.
May God bless you.
If you find yourself wanting to eliminate sins from your life just because they're a burden, then that's the Holy Spirit. It's not "natural" to desire purity just for the sake of feeling clean and fresh. That's not "normal". It's supernatural.
"Joy." The Holy Spirit is present. Thank you! ❤🙏
Yes indeed!
Yes, who doesn't love the spirit of joy? When you feel it not, you know you are hurting and missing the mark.
Excellent
Thank you Bishop Barron
Intellectual curiosity is what drives me to The Word on Fire. I need to be able to explain WHY I have faith in Jesus.
A strong Faith is a special spiritual gift from God 🙏⛪️😇
Thank you Bishop Barren as always!🌟❤️🔥✝️🕊🙏
I had an apparition after receiving the Eucharist 30 years ago at Mass in Ashington Northumberland
and one two years ago after visiting the Eucharist
In a small oratory at Ards Monastery when reciting the Perfect Prayer
Jesus is God and God is love eternal
Really good message. I often think about the fact that God hates pride. Why? I think its because pride is the love (or exultation) of self. But God calls us to love one another. Two totally different (and probably opposite) viewpoints of who we are and what we are called to do. God bless you and Bp Barron. Thanks!
Thanks for this teaching I realized I need to further work on self forgiveness and learn to love myself, at the moment I’m empty and wandering why thank you Father for your teaching
I can't count the amount of times people ask me, "Why are you so happy all the time?" I usually say, "Well, that's a question for Jesus." I guess I should say, "Its the Holy Spirit."
Bless your heart. ❤
Lord help me to speak with a bold spirit in proclaiming your name
Beautiful sermon!
I am progressing in my faith and it is THANKS to you Bishop Barron. God bless you.
Thank-you Bishop Barron for pointing out those 5 important points of the Holy Spirit.
I feel content moat always but i peay for humility. I do know when the Holt Spirit is in me as the Bishop said... Pure Joy! When im a syate of Geace and with a contrite heart and i ask the Father through Jesus for His Holy Spirit. For me its undeniable! All praise to God
I'm prayerful but suffering greatly I'm 73 🙏
Praying for you and your pains 🙏⛪️
It is hard living in chronic pain. I too live with chronic pain, and I feel for you. Suffering is so part of this life, and yet we constantly try to find relief.
God Bles You!!
May God be with you and you in faith knowing the struggles will end.
I always thought the Holy Spirit was the Love between the Father and the Son. I always learn something new from you! Thank you Bishop Barron! You're the Best!❤
The holy Spirit comes to us with power when we pray with Mary as happened on the day of Pentecost. So let us prsy the holy Rosary meditatively
Christianity is so deep that i am so fascinating to hear from our priest and the teachings from john lennox help me to deepen my faith in God. Thanks.
Amen! We all be judged by how we love.
🙏📿🙏OFFER TO ALL WHO WANT OR NEED PRAYERS.
My daughter passed away. Please pray for repose of Martha’s soul.
@firstlast6292
I'm so terribly sorry you lost your daughter, Martha. May her and the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. You both will be in my daily Rosaries.
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@@lakotafire2804 God bless you so much for this.
I'm suffering greatly please pray I'm 73 🙏
Love and prayers 🙏
It's worth repeating. Thanks.
Powerful and much appreciated....this is how it's done Bishop . We must take way a lesson we will always remember . Thank you .
Beautiful lesson on the signs of the Holy Spirit. One sign that especially got my attention is "intellectual curiosity." We being so in love with Jesus, we want and strive to learn everything we possibly can about Him. I believe that is what we are doing right now seeking and listening to Bishop Barron. Thank you for posting the Bishop's message.
Well said!
Thank you Bishop Barron. I know The Holy Spirit is in me, it's sad my friends just don't want to know.
@@craftybarb6220The pride and judgement of the Demon Spirit is also in you, obviously ☹️
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And also in you, obviously.
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Please ignore Joan Dempsey. You certainly don't deserve that barb from such a troll. May God surround, embrace and bless you.
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Thank you Bishop
Thank you My Lord Bishop Barron. May God bless you.
THANK YOU BISHOP BARRON. YOU SAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE
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Great. Thanks Bishop Barron.🙏🏽
Amen 🙏 JMJ ❤
Thank you for sharing
WONDERFUL!! Thank you, both gentlemen.
Fantastic. I am so grateful…
Thanks for posting this video and reminders of virtues. God Bless!
You are so welcome
Love listening to your channel. Thanks for this wonderful content...
Glad you enjoy it!
Hallelujah
Thank you Bishop Barron.
Gracias bellísima reflexión
de nada!
Thanks for sharing...I will watch it again...xx blessings ❤
Love vibrates on a high frequency more than 700 Hertz .....but Authenticity is the highest frequency .....
Amen 🙏 hallelujah ❤
Thank you TJ for sharing the message.
Amazing😇
Awesome lesson!!
Working with Jesus, she consoles and nurses us towards God.
Amen.. 🙏
Amen
"Action is hope. There is no hope whitout hope"
Ray Bradbuy.
GOD bless you. Thank you for expression and sharing knowledge.
We are apostles of the Lord
I've been told all I talk about is My God. I wouldn't have it any other way!
Live the Holy Spirit. Only when necessary, use words.
Great video.
8:40 joy amen
Bishop knows the Holy Spirit left me and my family out of Rome
What about the Beatitude “Blessed are those who weep & mourn”? Please explain this. Thank you!
What I find helps for me is to type your question in google, and read the commentaries about that subject or verse, and it will be revealed to you. I love doing that. I think that the ones who weep and mourn with hearts open to God will be blessed, because they will be comforted through Jesus Christ in the way that the world cannot give.
Yes, who doesn't love the spirit of joy? When you feel it not, you know you are hurting and missing the mark.
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*** The Gospel says we are few any way and not any one who says Lord, Lord is saved. And saint Paul said according 2nd Tim 3:1 in the last days terrible things will happen. And in 2nd Thesa. 2: 3-4 says many will lose their faith. And we are in the last days
And I was born in Middle East now Canadian and a Chrestian Catholic. AMEN
I like this guy
The Holy Spirit is the Love between the Father and the Son ...
I wasn't too fun of the Father, thought his way of teaching about the Gospels, is too modern, and Jesus Gospel was, it's the same, never change to molded to the modern world. Like adapting the teachings of Jesus to the Satan's kingdom, modern society. Don't count on Jesus giving us a break because our slapness on fallowing his teachings. Actually we have less excuses today, to say; I didn't know that! We have all the tools to find out, but we turned blind eyes on it, because is not comfortable for us, changing our wicked way of living, I done it, many times, choosing the wicked teachings, because fits my dinner daily life. But noticed that Bishop is slowly changing and became more conservative on his teachings.
without one the others are diminished as well.
Well, this certainly makes me doubt that the Holy Spirit is in me. My life is full of anxiety and depression, not joy. Despite countless prayer and desire for God.
Joy comes from people of the world too...who are not engaged in the gospel or even who are not Christians. It can seem unfair that they could be so happy in the world when other Christians might not feel/ or seem so joyful., and they want to be. We can be in the word and yet still feel not joyful sometimes. Perhaps it is just a human condition no matter what.
There may be a clinical issue that can be addressed with a priest or a professional. I know. I was there once.
He’s a Bishop
Unfortunately it doesn’t require the Holy Spirit to perform “good works”. There are some very loving and giving people who do not even believe that there is a God. Don’t get caught up on externals. We can’t know a person’s heart. Only God knows our hearts.
Just because the Holy Spirit dwells within us does not mean that He will repel evil spirits. The apostle Paul suffered even though he boldly proclaimed Christ.
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Hey Dude, is it not time to visit the barber?
Judge not lest you be judged
I know I’m looking like Einstein 😂
Looking great Father. Really. Gods handiwork is perfect
Why I won’t subscribe
Help my heart doesn't want to repent and gets mad and tries to avoid it
That's when we do it anyway. Everyone has that resistance, but when we resist it more and more it will give up trying to resist you.
Signs of Holy Spirit:
1. BOLD SPEAKING and proclamation of Christ and Faith in Practice (religion) Those with the Holy Spirit MUST speak (or write) of faith and the SPIRIT always at work.
2. Evil Spirits are NOT PRESENT (the ability to be patient, give reasons for belief, an ability to say NO to the many temptations in 'the culture' (world). There is an anger OF SIN
and the WANTING TO WARN OTHERS of sins always out and about...because of LOVE that is a part of us. (even when they SCREAM or try to shut us down... LOVE within
does not 'fear' humans as ourselves, but speaks all the more and PRAYS all the more.)
3. JOY!! The ability to be Joyful...even when others are saying 'you won't or can't do that.' JOY bears the virtue OF HOPE...NEVER GIVING UP!
4. INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY OF THE FAITH. Reading all types of books, reading certain bona fide faith blogs, listening to shows about faith, going on retreats to listen to religious speakers. And INTELLECT has the ability to discern TRUTH in the words.
5. The Spirit of LOVE... connecting Father and God's ONLY human/Divine Son. LOVE: to WILL THE GOOD of another. Being happy when anyone accomplishes ANYTHING of good.
but especially the coming to knowledge and understanding of Faith and Faith in Practice. (the good of Spiritual Growth) THE HOLY SPIRIT...comes when we OBEY GOD'S
TEN COMMANDMENTS out and about in daily living. (called being IN but NOT OF the world, with understanding such a way will not make us popular with a lot of persons.)
The Holy Spirit PRODUCES GROWTH OF THE 12 FRUITS OF CHRIST (and it is an ever constant, slow and steady, growth...there will be slips, minor falls from grace but we will
know when we slip or fall, BECAUSE OF THE counselor Holy Spirit will tell it to our mind)
After this you will be baptized according to Acts 2:38 , these verses are straight out of the NAB with this on the back cover " Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ " St. Jerome . Page. 192 NT Acts 10: 44 - 48 * This Catholic did his home work !! Now he's a Oneness Pentecostal , and to think my uncle made rosary beads for St. Anthony's church in Revere, Ma where 99% are Italian Catholics .
Ciyalu bhaashaa avsya nam bisoplaa thulin bhashaa raka ganna aksarath raka ganna
Why am i catholic or Why should I become catholic please help me
my priest ask the ? my answer my father and mother
i am 72 year old and now go to church have Sunday
If they really believed that the Holy Spirit resides in everyone they wouldn’t disrespect women so much.
They don’t disrespect women at all if anything they respect women more than anyone else. I’m a Catholic woman I go to church every week I’ve never felt disrespected in any way and when I go to confession no matter what I say the priest is sympathetic. If you think they disrespect women that tells me you don’t know anything about the faith.
😅Becarefull , satan turns himself into a angel of light or energy 😢
i wonder if the Bishop knows the signs of abuse? if he doers than why has he done nothing to prevent it from happening?
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Mall uyanaa aya dan dhaanya arksaava vanuvan avadhe unoth hodhi dhaanya vanuvan avdhe novee mall uyanaa nidhaa gana Rata ede kaala nirahaara veema kiyana nombe kathaa valama hitiyoth Hama daatama oyalaa dhaanya vanuvan navi mall uyana thulama nide
I hope you will clarify something please: Is Bishop Barron an evangelical? Is he married? Did he have to switch from Catholic priest to evangelical pastor because he is married? Or because of his Christian Nationalism views? What I've read about him is very troubling. Thank you.
He is a celibate , Catholic priest that was chosen to become a bishop. Again, he is not married and is a clergy member of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. He evangelizes through Word on Fire .
@@jamesleonard9455 Lots of conflicting info out there. Thanks.
@@bon47ful Try to investigate your sources. That will help unravel the conflict. Continue to pray and seek a priest to talk with, explain your circumstances. This will help you. God bless you.
A problem LGBTQ always use the lové card
Difficult joy pray, pray no results around me why makes me wander if praying affective
Dhanya kathaava lankaava de karanna baha mall kathaa vithari lankaavaa
If you speak in tongues, you have received the Holy Spirit.
If you don't speak in tongues, you do not have the Holy Spirit.
That's according to scripture.
Why dont Catholics have salvation testimonies??
That is an interesting question. Probably because salvation is through the church not a individual decisionism.
@@tjseaney_ absolutely untrue. The humans you follow CANT supply eternal life.
You can't supply salvation to yourself either @@TimSpangler-rd6vs
Because the presumption of salvation is a sin. You can fall and fall eternally after baptism and belief. Remember always - Satan and his demons believe; they are the first to recognise Christ. You must bear fruit in your faith and persevere throughout. Humility and charity are core features, too.
@@vincentmcnabb939 if salvation were a human accomplishment, you would have a point. Its not
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I don't understand a bit, so am I possessed by demons or what? Or is it really the Holy Spirit dwelling in me? Those who works in the house of God said it is impossible it was the holy spirit because there is no way the holy spirit wants to dwelling inside of a filthy woman like me. Meh.. whatever
Did someone actually say that to you?
@@CIST3they didn't actually but they said it with their eyes and face expressions. Anyone with common sense can actually read that easily, and now I'm trying to block and erase them from messing into and playing games with my mind.
@@JamilMatalim This person is hanging out with people with evil in their hearts, pulling this person down in the well with them. I wish this person could hang out with healthy, good people. God bless.
The true meaning of Christianity returns, not JC personally. It starts here. The proper understanding that biblical creation is of spiritual nature, not material nature has been discovered. Biblical creation is metaphors for psychological factors not material and is the creation of Adam.
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRISTIANITY. (sequence)
I will send you Elijah before the great day of the lord.(the nutball has arrived.
1 The entrance of Elijah the messenger. Embodied in the knowledge of the Old Seers.
2 Christianity as present of the world is proven false.
3 The world falls into disbelief.
4 The world mostly takes on the new knowledge.
5 Governments are removed or become inert. 2 camps are created one good-the greater number falls away.
6 The good leave the cities, go into hiding for safety.
7 End time arrives. The evil with no governance destroy their own kind. (by the hand of man will man's blood be shed)
8 Proper Christianity remains. e
Sorry, Bishop but you're suggesting that protestantism is of God. You're helping to propagate protestantism by suggesting that they are part of the Body of Christ. That can't be right. It is impossible for any protestant church to be right without the credibility of Jesus being brought into question. I'm out!
Can you honestly say that the Holy Spirit is only in one church? Impossible.
@@birdlynn417 The Holy Spirit is God Almighty Himself, please bear that in mind and seriously ponder on what you mean by the Holy Spirit being in other churches. Of course God Loves us all irrespective of whether we choose Him or not, but my point is that it is impossible for God to call anyone to be a non Catholic. I did not say that it is impossible for a non Catholic to go to Heaven, but that the Catholic Church is the only vehicle to Heaven.
I also believe that our Lord who is the King of Mercy Himself will have mercy on those who for no fault of their own found themselves outside the Catholic Church but lived well (as there are many Muslims and others who live better Christian lives than many Christians).
@@johniteshi4457 I am age 64 now, and have lived my life in a few churches, as well as visited some more in my time...some I would not ever return to and some maybe once in a while, but hard to stay settled in just one. I am glad that in my life of hardships, lack of transportation, living with now chronic pain and disability and alone, that I was or am able to receive some comfort and support or meaning from a few of the churches which I also experienced God's presence in. I too, am Catholic as of 2017, but I have found them out of reach in location or transportation, and even when I was, it was a lonely experience of coming and going and noone to be accounted for or who would check up on members. The LDS does do that, they are formed in the way that Christ teaches us to be for one another, and I have found that very much loved and supported like none other church before. All I can say is that God is not in a box, and my eyes are opened as well as my brain when I can receive his Holy Spirit in different ways in different churches, and that is when I see our likeness and connection, still.
Barron a child of V2
The Holy Spirit isn't a person The Holy Spirit is the divine power of God. Jesus debunked the doctrine of the Trinity. Jesus said. 'I and the Father are one' John 10:30
Jesus also said: "If you have seen me you have seen the Father". John 14:9
Everywhere in the Holy Bible, each time Jesus talked about God the Father and himself, Jesus never included the Holy Spirit.
Also, Jesus always said that God was his father, not the holy Spirit. But if the Holy Spirit was a person, then Jesus would've said that the Holy Spirit was his Father, since Mary's conception was carried out by the Holy Spirit...
The angel said to her. "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the Power of the most high will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Luke 1:35
Note. what Luke I:35 says. That the Holy Spirit, and the power of God, are one...The Holy Spirit is the power of God.
{According to the doctrine of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit would be the Father of Jesus, instead of God.}
If the Catholic church was guided by the Holy Spirit, it would understand what the Scriptures are saying, but the Catholic church doesn't understand the Holy Scriptures, it just makes things up according to pagan traditions.
The Holy Spirit is feminine. The words “ruach ha-kodesh” (the Holy Spirit) are feminine grammatically in the earliest Hebrew texts and Arabic, in all modern copies, and in modern Hebrew. Additionally, Luke 35:33 "For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ 34 The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ 35 Yet wisdom is justified by all HER children.” And, of course, the visible representation of the female was with the Doves at Jesus' baptism. So, of all the signs the cosmic spirit could present, it could show anything it wanted to provide; it presented the Doves. In fact, it was a blessing from the female (his mother) who started Jesus in his ministry. And please use the proper pronouns for God.
Gary, I don't know what your background is, but you're making a lot of nonsense arguments. Do not play around with the Holy Spirit and HIS personhood.
Jesus tells us that the Holy Spirit shall be called with male pronouns.
John 14:26 ESV - 26 But the Helper, *the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, **_HE_** will teach you* all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
The use of a feminine word like reach ha-kodesh is not necessarily indicative of gender ESPECIALLY when it comes to the Divine Persons.
Can doves be male? Why do you assume a dove is always female?
And wisdom is often regarded as being Jesus, so can female pronouns be used to address Jesus? See also Col 2:2-3.
1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV - 30 And because of him you are in *Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God,* righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
@@alisterrebelo9013 I just love the way you immediately "Know" the truth and then insult me to boot. It's a sign that you use your faith to do rude things and get away with it. You can't-not with me. FYI, I graduated from a Catholic University with a BA and received a Master's from the Nazarines. By the way, they're Christians, FYI. I have been thoroughly instructed in theology. We said a prayer before each class. And read more than you can imagine. Arguing with you is worthless because you already know the truth. You're a male who believes in a God-Man. Congratulations!
@@garymazeffa1442 *Don't assume, give me scientific evidence that I'm a male*
*Notice how you did not refute a single one of my arguments* and instead decided to attempt to club me over the head with your credentials. Go on then, tell me which University you got your BA from, and which Nazarine university you attended (there's a few different ones).
You might be thoroughly instructed in theology, but I challenge you to demonstrate that the ones who formed you are orthodox Catholics. It appears as if they are modernist innovators, whose teachings are well outside of the boundaries of the Bible and the Magisterium of Catholic Church. *If of course, you are not a Catholic, then my previous questions made directly from the Bible and Biblical logic stand unaddressed.*
Try and defend the questions raised, and we'll see how well a pleb does against a "credentialed" scholar.
CCC 683
683 "No one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except by the Holy Spirit." "God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!"' This knowledge of faith is possible only in the Holy Spirit: to be in touch with Christ, we must first have been touched by *the Holy Spirit. HE comes to meet us and kindles faith in us.* By virtue of our Baptism, the first sacrament of the faith, the Holy Spirit in the Church communicates to us, intimately and personally, the life that originates in the Father and is offered to us in the Son.
687 "No one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God."7 Now God's Spirit, who reveals God, makes known to us Christ, his Word, his living Utterance, but the Spirit does not speak of himself. The Spirit who "has spoken through the prophets" makes us hear the Father's Word, but we do not hear the Spirit himself. *We know him only in the movement by which HE reveals the Word to us* and disposes us to welcome him in faith. The Spirit of truth who "unveils" Christ to us "will not speak on his own."8 Such properly divine self-effacement explains why *"the world cannot receive [him], because it neither sees HIM nor knows HIM,"* while those who believe in Christ know *the Spirit because HE dwells with them.*
@@garymazeffa1442 *Don't assume, give me scientific evidence that I'm a male*
*Notice how you did not refute a single one of my arguments* and instead decided to attempt to club me over the head with your credentials. Go on then, tell me which University you got your BA from, and which Nazarine university you attended (there's a few different ones).
I challenge you to demonstrate that the ones who formed you are orthodox Catholics. It appears as if they are modernist innovators, whose teachings are well outside of the boundaries of the Bible and the Magisterium of Catholic Church. CCC683 and CCC687 as well as John 14:16-18 Jesus says multiple times the Holy Spirit is to be addressed with MALE PRONOUNS.* If of course, you are not a Catholic, then my previous questions made directly from the Bible and Biblical logic stand unaddressed.*
Try and defend the questions raised, and we'll see how well a layman does against a "credentialed" scholar.
John 14:16-18
*6 And I will ask the Father, and HE will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees HIM nor knows HIM. You know HIM, for HE dwells with you and will be in you.*
@@garymazeffa1442 *Don't assume, give me scientific evidence that I'm a male*
*Notice how you did not refute a single one of my arguments* and instead decided to attempt to club me over the head with your credentials. Go on then, tell me which University you got your BA from, and which Nazarine university you attended (there's a few different ones).
I challenge you to demonstrate that the ones who formed you are orthodox Catholics. It appears as if they are modernists, whose teachings are well outside of the boundaries of the Bible and the Magisterium of Catholic Church. CCC683 and CCC687 as well as John 14:16-18 Jesus says multiple times the Holy Spirit is to be addressed with MALE identifiers.* If of course, you are not a Catholic, then my previous questions made directly from the Bible and Biblical logic stand unaddressed.*
Try and address the arguments raised, and we'll see how well a layman does against a "credentialed" scholar.
John 14:16-18
*6 And I will ask the Father, and HE will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees HIM nor knows HIM. You know HIM, for HE dwells with you and will be in you.*