Is the Holy Spirit God?

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Is the Holy Spirit God? The short answer to this question is, yes, the

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Holy Spirit as described in the Bible is fully God. Along with God the Father and God the

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Son, Jesus Christ, God the Spirit is the third member of the Godhead, or Trinity. Those who challenge the idea that the

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Holy Spirit is God, suggest that the Holy Spirit may simply be an impersonal force of some kind, a source of power controlled by God but not fully a person himself.

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Others suggest that perhaps the Holy Spirit is just another name for Jesus in spirit form apart from his body.

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Neither of these ideas lines up with what the Bible actually says about the Holy Spirit though. The Bible describes the

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Holy Spirit as a person who has been present with the Father and the Son since before time began.

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The Spirit is integral to all things that God is described as doing in the Bible. The Spirit of God was present at and involved in the creation.

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The Holy Spirit moved the prophets of God with the words of God. The bodies of those in Christ are described as temples of God because the

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Holy Spirit is in us. Jesus was clear that to be born again, to become a

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Christian, one must be born of the Spirit. One of the most convincing statements in the

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Bible about the Holy Spirit being God is found in Acts 5. When Ananias lied about the price of a piece of property,

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Peter said that Satan had filled Ananias' heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and concluded by saying that Ananias had lied to God.

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Peter's words equate the Holy Spirit with God. He spoke as if the Spirit and God were one and the same.

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Jesus told His disciples that the Holy Spirit, the Helper, was different from Himself. The Father would send the

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Helper, the Spirit of Truth, after Christ departed. The Spirit would speak through them about Jesus.

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All three persons Jesus mentions are God, while being distinct from each other within the Trinity.

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The three members of the Trinity show up, together yet distinct, at Jesus' baptism.

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As Jesus comes up from the water, the Spirit descends on Him like a dove, while the voice of the Father is heard from heaven, saying that He is pleased with His beloved

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Son. Finally, the Bible describes the Holy Spirit as a person, not a mere force.

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He can be grieved, He has a will, He uses His mind to search the deep things of God, and He has fellowship with believers.

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Clearly, the Spirit is a person, just as the Father and the Son are persons. Indeed, the

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Bible is unequivocal that the Holy Spirit is, in fact, God, just as Jesus Christ and the

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Father are God. Got questions? The Bible has answers, and we'll help you find them.