§ Names of the Holy Spirit
Each member of the Godhead, being a distinct person, has different names and titles in the Bible. There are many names for God, such as Lord, Jehovah, Almighty, Father, Lord God, Jehovah God, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, etc. All of these names describe some attribute or phase of character of God.
There are more names in the Bible given to Christ than to God; there are approximately two hundred names and titles given to Christ in the Bible. However, there are fewer names given to
the Holy Spirit than to any other member of the Godhead. These
names are significant; they describe the nature, relation function, and ministry of the Holy Spirit.
We have such names as "Spirit of the Lord," "Spirit of Truth," "My Spirit," and "Spirit of Jehovah." The conclusion is inescapable; the Holy Spirit has all the attributes and characteristics of a person; he is a person; he must be thought! of and dealt with as a person. The Holy Spirit has just such names and titles as divine thought wished man to know. In the King James Version he is spoken of as "the Holy Ghost."
"Ghost" is an archaic term that is never used in the modern translation to refer to the Holy Spirit. It helps to clear this member of the Godhead of confusion to speak of him in such
appropriate names as are found in the Bible.
There are fewer aspects of the personality, nature, and work of the Holy Spirit revealed in the Bible than the other members of the Godhead; hence, there are fewer names given to the Holy Spirit in the Bible. It will assist in clarity of thought if we keep clearly in mind the distinctions between person, personality, and nature.
A person is a being conscious of self, subsisting in individuality. And endowed with intuitive reason, rational sense and a free will. A person may be said to signify the indivisible of a rational nature, as distinguished from the natural attributes and functions which this self possesses and by means of manifested.
A personality may be defined as the sum of qualities that make a person a person as distinguished member of some lower order of creation; it consists in the of self-consciousness plus self-determination in view of moral Nature may be described as that substratum or condition oа which determines the kind and attributes of the person, but is clearly distinguished from person himself.
A person, the indivisible self which is and acts as a self-conscious is free moral agent; his personalities that which makes him a rather than a brute or a thing his nature is the sum total mind and heart which the self possesses and exp more or less perfectly, consciously and unconsciously. Person in God is the sum total of the infinite attributes resident in inmost depth of his one divine nature; the three persons in Godhead are the three individualities, the three personal cent consciousness, the three separate self-conscious and self-detecting persons or selves.
There are more names in the Bible given to Christ than to God; there are approximately two hundred names and titles given to Christ in the Bible. However, there are fewer names given to
the Holy Spirit than to any other member of the Godhead. These
names are significant; they describe the nature, relation function, and ministry of the Holy Spirit.
We have such names as "Spirit of the Lord," "Spirit of Truth," "My Spirit," and "Spirit of Jehovah." The conclusion is inescapable; the Holy Spirit has all the attributes and characteristics of a person; he is a person; he must be thought! of and dealt with as a person. The Holy Spirit has just such names and titles as divine thought wished man to know. In the King James Version he is spoken of as "the Holy Ghost."
"Ghost" is an archaic term that is never used in the modern translation to refer to the Holy Spirit. It helps to clear this member of the Godhead of confusion to speak of him in such
appropriate names as are found in the Bible.
There are fewer aspects of the personality, nature, and work of the Holy Spirit revealed in the Bible than the other members of the Godhead; hence, there are fewer names given to the Holy Spirit in the Bible. It will assist in clarity of thought if we keep clearly in mind the distinctions between person, personality, and nature.
A person is a being conscious of self, subsisting in individuality. And endowed with intuitive reason, rational sense and a free will. A person may be said to signify the indivisible of a rational nature, as distinguished from the natural attributes and functions which this self possesses and by means of manifested.
A personality may be defined as the sum of qualities that make a person a person as distinguished member of some lower order of creation; it consists in the of self-consciousness plus self-determination in view of moral Nature may be described as that substratum or condition oа which determines the kind and attributes of the person, but is clearly distinguished from person himself.
A person, the indivisible self which is and acts as a self-conscious is free moral agent; his personalities that which makes him a rather than a brute or a thing his nature is the sum total mind and heart which the self possesses and exp more or less perfectly, consciously and unconsciously. Person in God is the sum total of the infinite attributes resident in inmost depth of his one divine nature; the three persons in Godhead are the three individualities, the three personal cent consciousness, the three separate self-conscious and self-detecting persons or selves.
