This talks about God’s Spirit in the Old Testament, but still doesn’t show that it’s a 3rd person of the Godhead. If I say the Spirit is another attribute of God the Father, it fits just as easily as saying it’s a separate person.
What the bible & the spirit of prophecy said? The Holy Spirit, which proceeds from the only begotten Son of God - RH, April 5, 1906 Note: Only 2 divine Being create the world The Father and the Son engaged in the mighty, wondrous work they had contemplated, of creating the world... After the earth was created, and the beasts upon it, the Father and Son carried out their purpose, which was designed before the fall of Satan, to make man in their own image. They had wrought together in the creation of the earth and every living thing upon it. And now God said to His Son, "Let Us make man in Our image" - EGW, The Spirit of Prophecy, vol.1, pg.24,25 The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ; it is His representative - 13MR 313.3, 1895 Christ has left His Holy Spirit to be His representative in the world - Lt84, October 22, 1895 The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ, which is sent to all men to give them sufficiency - 14MR 84.3 We want the Holy Spirit, which is Jesus Christ - Lt66, April 10, 1894 ..but it is the leaven of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, which is sent down from heaven, called the Holy Ghost - Ms36-1891 They have one God and one Saviour; and one Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, is to bring unity into their ranks - 9T 189.3, 1909 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. Romans 8:9 Finally, we know the Divine unity of the Father and the Son from the fact that both have the same Spirit. Paul, after saying that they that are in the flesh cannot please God, continues: "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." Rom. 8:9. Here we find that the Holy Spirit is both the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ - E.J. Waggoner, CAHR, p.23, 1890 All things Christ received from God - DA, p. 21 The Father gave HIS Spirit without measure to HIS Son - RH, November 5, 1908 They were two, yet little short of being identical; two in individuality, yet one in spirit, and heart, and character - Youth's Instructor, Descember 16, 1897 This refers to the omnipresence of the Spirit of Christ, called the Comforter - 14MR 179.2 I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you - John 14:18 Note: His Spirit is A DISTINCT PERSONALITY, the Holy Spirit has a personality The Holy Spirit is the Comforter, in Christ's name. He PERSONIFIES CHRIST, yet is A DISTINCT PERSONALITY - 20MR 324.2 When trials overshadow the soul, remember the word of Christ, remember that He is an unseen presence in the PERSON of the Holy Spirit - DG 185.2, 1897 Lift up Christ in His power in the PERSON of the Holy Spirit. He is waiting for them toopen the door an admit Him - Lt59, March 29, 1899 Christ has left His Holy Spirit to be His representative in the world - Lt84, October 22, 1895 Jesus is present in the PERSON of His representative, the Holy Spirit - 12MR 145.2, 1898 The spirit of every living being has a personality because our spirit is our personality. So the Holy Spirit has a personality because God and His Son have a personality. "In giving us His Spirit, God gives us Himself," (E.G. White, 7T 273.1, 1902) Note: His Spirit DIVESTED of the personality of humanity AND INDEPENDENT "Cumbered with humanity, CHRIST could not be in every place personally; therefore it was altogether for their advantage that He should leave them, go to His father, and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is [Christ] HIMSELF, divested of the personality of humanity, and independent thereof. HE would represent Himself as present in all places by HIS Holy Spirit, as the Omnipresent." (Ellen G. White, Lt119, February 18, 1895) Note: in His second coming, only 2 divine Being mention, Son of man & his Father (not mention the Holy Spirit, as another divine Being) For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works - Matt. 16:27 Satan, next to Christ, was... highest in power and glory - Sign of the Times, July 23, 1902 After the fall of man. It was Gabriel,the angel next in rank to the Son of God - DA. pg.234 ..he (Satan) did not want to occupy a second place, but to be next to God. He would have the Lord Jesus become second to him,... he was jealous of Christ, the Saviour... his craving to be the highest one next to God - EGW, Ms74, March 20, 1910 Christ gave His representative, the third person of the Godhead, the Holy spirit - EGW, CTr 301.4 The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ; it is His representative - EGW, 13MR 313.3, 1895 Note : Power to resist & overcome sin Sin could be resisted and overcome only through the mighty agency of the third person of the Godhead - DA, 671.2 There is no power in you apart from Christ, but it is your privilege to have Christ abiding in your heart by faith, and He can overcome sin in you, when you cooperate with His efforts - EGW, Our High Calling, 76.5 With His spirit Christ sends a reconciling influence and a power that takes away sin - EGW, Review and Herald, May 19, 1904 The Prince of the power of evil can only be held in check by the power of God in the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit - EGW, Special Testimonies, series A, no. 10, p. 37, 1897 Jesus alone has power to save from sin, to free from the power of evil; and to doubt him who has laid down his life for us, is to grieve and insult the Father - EGW, Review and Herald, February 10, 1891 By His humanity, Christ touched humanity; by His divinity, He lays hold upon the throne of God. As the Son of man, He gave us an example of obedience; as the Son of God, He gives us power to obey. DA 24.3 Note : Below, several statement indicate there are ONLY 2 Divine Being (using the word ALONE to express it) The Father and the Son ALONE are to be exalted - EGW, The Youth's Instructor, July 7, 1898 God and Christ ALONE know what the souls of men have cost - EGW, Signs of the Times, January 13, 1909 God informed Satan that to his Son ALONE He would reveal his secret purposes... - EGW, Signs of the Times, January 9, 1879 No man, nor even the highest angel, can estimate the great cost; it is known ONLY to the Father and the Son - EGW, The Bible Echo, October 28, 1895 The ONLY Being who was one with God lived the law in humanity, descended to the lowly life of a common laborer, and toiled at the carpenter's bench with His earthly parent - EGW, Signs of the Times, October 14, 1897 Christ the Word, the only-begotten of God, was one with the eternal Father, one in nature, in character, and in purpose, the ONLY being in all the universe that could enter into all the counsels and purposes of God. By Christ, the Father wrought in the creation of all heavenly beings - EGW, GC p.493 Note: Who is the Comforter? This refers to the omnipresence of the Spirit of Christ, called the Comforter - EGW,14MR 179.2 Let them study the seventeenth of John, and learn how to pray and how to live the prayer of Christ. He is the Comforter. He will abide in their hearts, making their joy full - EGW, Review and Herald, January 27, 1903 As by faith we look to Jesus, our faith pierces the shadow, and we adore God for His wondrous love is giving Jesus the Comforter - EGW, 19MR 297.3 Christ is to be known by the blessed name of Comforter - EGW, Ms7 - 1902, January 26, 1902 The Saviour is our Comforter - EGW, 8MR 49.3 Jesus comes to you as the Spirit of Truth - EGW, 2MR 337.1 To the guidance of this Comforter all who believe in Chist may implicitly trust. He is the Spirit of truth - EGW, 12MR 260.1 We can not be with Christ in person, as were His first disciples, but HE has sent HIS Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth - [John 16:13 quoted] EGW,Ms30, June 18, 1900 ..Receive ye the Holy Ghost.. Christ breathed HIS Spirit upon them - EGW, DA, pg.805 .. in giving HIS Holy Spirit, He is giving to them the glory which the Father has given him, that He and his people may be one in God - EGW, Signs of the Times, October 3, 1892 When the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the early church, the whole multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul. The Spirit of Christ made them one. This is the fruit of abiding in Christ - EGW, GCDB, February 6, 1893 The promise of the Holy Spirit is not limited to any age or to any race. Christ declared that the divine influence of HIS Spirit was to be with His followers unto the end. From the day of pentecost to the present time, the Comforter has been sent to all who have yielded themselves fully to the Lord and to His service - EGW, Acts of the Apostles, 49.2 Christ came to our world, but the world could not endure His purity. He has gone to His Father, but He has sent HIS Holy Spirit to represent Him in the world till he shall come again - EGW, Ms1, January 11, 1897 "Cumbered with humanity, CHRIST could not be in every place personally; therefore it was altogether for their advantage that He should leave them, go to His father, and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is [Christ] HIMSELF, divested of the personality of humanity, and independent thereof. HE would represent Himself as present in all places by HIS Holy Spirit, as the Omnipresent." (Ellen G. White, Lt119, February 18, 1895)
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Here is the link of this lecture's notes- of Jiri Moskala's "The Holy Spirit in the Hebrew Scriptures"pdf:
www.atsjats.org/publication/view/537
This talks about God’s Spirit in the Old Testament, but still doesn’t show that it’s a 3rd person of the Godhead.
If I say the Spirit is another attribute of God the Father, it fits just as easily as saying it’s a separate person.
What the bible & the spirit of prophecy said?
The Holy Spirit, which proceeds from the only begotten Son of God - RH, April 5, 1906
Note: Only 2 divine Being create the world
The Father and the Son engaged in the mighty, wondrous work they had contemplated, of creating the world... After the earth was created, and the beasts upon it, the Father and Son carried out their purpose, which was designed before the fall of Satan, to make man in their own image. They had wrought together in the creation of the earth and every living thing upon it. And now God said to His Son, "Let Us make man in Our image" - EGW, The Spirit of Prophecy, vol.1, pg.24,25
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ; it is His representative - 13MR 313.3, 1895
Christ has left His Holy Spirit to be His representative in the world - Lt84, October 22, 1895
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ, which is sent to all men to give them sufficiency - 14MR 84.3
We want the Holy Spirit, which is Jesus Christ - Lt66, April 10, 1894
..but it is the leaven of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, which is sent down from heaven, called the Holy Ghost - Ms36-1891
They have one God and one Saviour; and one Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, is to bring unity into their ranks - 9T 189.3, 1909
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. Romans 8:9
Finally, we know the Divine unity of the Father and the Son from the fact that both have the same Spirit. Paul, after saying that they that are in the flesh cannot please God, continues: "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." Rom. 8:9. Here we find that the Holy Spirit is both the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ - E.J. Waggoner, CAHR, p.23, 1890
All things Christ received from God - DA, p. 21
The Father gave HIS Spirit without measure to HIS Son - RH, November 5, 1908
They were two, yet little short of being identical; two in individuality, yet one in spirit, and heart, and character - Youth's Instructor, Descember 16, 1897
This refers to the omnipresence of the Spirit of Christ, called the Comforter - 14MR 179.2
I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you - John 14:18
Note: His Spirit is A DISTINCT PERSONALITY, the Holy Spirit has a personality
The Holy Spirit is the Comforter, in Christ's name. He PERSONIFIES CHRIST, yet is A DISTINCT PERSONALITY - 20MR 324.2
When trials overshadow the soul, remember the word of Christ, remember that He is an unseen presence in the PERSON of the Holy Spirit - DG 185.2, 1897
Lift up Christ in His power in the PERSON of the Holy Spirit. He is waiting for them toopen the door an admit Him - Lt59, March 29, 1899
Christ has left His Holy Spirit to be His representative in the world - Lt84, October 22, 1895
Jesus is present in the PERSON of His representative, the Holy Spirit - 12MR 145.2, 1898
The spirit of every living being has a personality because our spirit is our personality. So the Holy Spirit has a personality because God and His Son have a personality. "In giving us His Spirit, God gives us Himself," (E.G. White, 7T 273.1, 1902)
Note: His Spirit DIVESTED of the personality of humanity AND INDEPENDENT
"Cumbered with humanity, CHRIST could not be in every place personally; therefore it was altogether for their advantage that He should leave them, go to His father, and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is [Christ] HIMSELF, divested of the personality of humanity, and independent thereof. HE would represent Himself as present in all places by HIS Holy Spirit, as the Omnipresent." (Ellen G. White, Lt119, February 18, 1895)
Note: in His second coming, only 2 divine Being mention, Son of man & his Father (not mention the Holy Spirit, as another divine Being)
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works - Matt. 16:27
Satan, next to Christ, was... highest in power and glory - Sign of the Times, July 23, 1902
After the fall of man. It was Gabriel,the angel next in rank to the Son of God - DA. pg.234
..he (Satan) did not want to occupy a second place, but to be next to God. He would have the Lord Jesus become second to him,... he was jealous of Christ, the Saviour... his craving to be the highest one next to God - EGW, Ms74, March 20, 1910
Christ gave His representative, the third person of the Godhead, the Holy spirit - EGW, CTr 301.4
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ; it is His representative - EGW, 13MR 313.3, 1895
Note : Power to resist & overcome sin
Sin could be resisted and overcome only through the mighty agency of the third person of the Godhead - DA, 671.2
There is no power in you apart from Christ, but it is your privilege to have Christ abiding in your heart by faith, and He can overcome sin in you, when you cooperate with His efforts - EGW, Our High Calling, 76.5
With His spirit Christ sends a reconciling influence and a power that takes away sin - EGW, Review and Herald, May 19, 1904
The Prince of the power of evil can only be held in check by the power of God in the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit - EGW, Special Testimonies, series A, no. 10, p. 37, 1897
Jesus alone has power to save from sin, to free from the power of evil; and to doubt him who has laid down his life for us, is to grieve and insult the Father - EGW, Review and Herald, February 10, 1891
By His humanity, Christ touched humanity; by His divinity, He lays hold upon the throne of God. As the Son of man, He gave us an example of obedience; as the Son of God, He gives us power to obey. DA 24.3
Note : Below, several statement indicate there are ONLY 2 Divine Being (using the word ALONE to express it)
The Father and the Son ALONE are to be exalted - EGW, The Youth's Instructor, July 7, 1898
God and Christ ALONE know what the souls of men have cost - EGW, Signs of the Times, January 13, 1909
God informed Satan that to his Son ALONE He would reveal his secret purposes... - EGW, Signs of the Times, January 9, 1879
No man, nor even the highest angel, can estimate the great cost; it is known ONLY to the Father and the Son - EGW, The Bible Echo, October 28, 1895
The ONLY Being who was one with God lived the law in humanity, descended to the lowly life of a common laborer, and toiled at the carpenter's bench with His earthly parent - EGW, Signs of the Times, October 14, 1897
Christ the Word, the only-begotten of God, was one with the eternal Father, one in nature, in character, and in purpose, the ONLY being in all the universe that could enter into all the counsels and purposes of God. By Christ, the Father wrought in the creation of all heavenly beings - EGW, GC p.493
Note: Who is the Comforter?
This refers to the omnipresence of the Spirit of Christ, called the Comforter - EGW,14MR 179.2
Let them study the seventeenth of John, and learn how to pray and how to live the prayer of Christ. He is the Comforter. He will abide in their hearts, making their joy full - EGW, Review and Herald, January 27, 1903
As by faith we look to Jesus, our faith pierces the shadow, and we adore God for His wondrous love is giving Jesus the Comforter - EGW, 19MR 297.3
Christ is to be known by the blessed name of Comforter - EGW, Ms7 - 1902, January 26, 1902
The Saviour is our Comforter - EGW, 8MR 49.3
Jesus comes to you as the Spirit of Truth - EGW, 2MR 337.1
To the guidance of this Comforter all who believe in Chist may implicitly trust. He is the Spirit of truth - EGW, 12MR 260.1
We can not be with Christ in person, as were His first disciples, but HE has sent HIS Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth - [John 16:13 quoted] EGW,Ms30, June 18, 1900
..Receive ye the Holy Ghost.. Christ breathed HIS Spirit upon them - EGW, DA, pg.805
.. in giving HIS Holy Spirit, He is giving to them the glory which the Father has given him, that He and his people may be one in God - EGW, Signs of the Times, October 3, 1892
When the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the early church, the whole multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul. The Spirit of Christ made them one. This is the fruit of abiding in Christ - EGW, GCDB, February 6, 1893
The promise of the Holy Spirit is not limited to any age or to any race. Christ declared that the divine influence of HIS Spirit was to be with His followers unto the end. From the day of pentecost to the present time, the Comforter has been sent to all who have yielded themselves fully to the Lord and to His service - EGW, Acts of the Apostles, 49.2
Christ came to our world, but the world could not endure His purity. He has gone to His Father, but He has sent HIS Holy Spirit to represent Him in the world till he shall come again - EGW, Ms1, January 11, 1897
"Cumbered with humanity, CHRIST could not be in every place personally; therefore it was altogether for their advantage that He should leave them, go to His father, and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is [Christ] HIMSELF, divested of the personality of humanity, and independent thereof. HE would represent Himself as present in all places by HIS Holy Spirit, as the Omnipresent." (Ellen G. White, Lt119, February 18, 1895)