Identifying the Holy Spirit
One central doctrines advocated by the god of this world that has gained acceptance to
mainstream Christianity is the belief on a Triune God. That God is a trinity. Three distinct personalities of the
Godhead in one - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, co- equal but three separate divine persons combined
into one. An inquisitive mind might ask, how can that be? How can one plus one plus one equals one?
Proponents of this idea say it could not be explained. It is a mystery. Indeed it could not be explained simply
because it is not true. It never was true in the first place. What a pity! What a sad and painful reality that even
the very core of God's saving power is not understood by the many.
God's Holy Spirit as a separate entity of the Godhead was never an issue during the early years of God's
true church. How the decision in support of the trinity doctrine was reached is thoroughly detailed in history.
Many encyclopedias and other reliable reading materials are readily available for speedy references of those who
would dare care to know.
It is a well documented fact that the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325 is generally given most credit for
legitimizing the idea of the trinity, just a little over 300 years after Christ was crucified. Long before that and
even during the time of Christ and the apostles such an idea would have been an assertion of plain absurdity. The
trinity doctrine shares striking resemblance with the triad gods commonly practiced by the pagan religions of the
ancient world especially in Egypt and Babylon. And what of the Council of Nicaea ? By whose authority was
it called ? If not carefully studied one may assume that the council was called by church leaders at that time.
Surprisingly, it was Emperor Constantine, himself not a Christian who initiated the council meeting. And what
was his motive ? On page 258, volume 1 of "A History of Christian Thought" one will read:
" In 325 the Emperor Constantine called an ecclesiastical Council to meet at Nicaea in Bithynia. In the
hope for securing for his throne the support of the growing body of Christians he had shown them considerable
favor and it was to his interest to have the church vigorous and united. The Arian controversy (one of the side
of the trinity dispute) was threatening its unity and menacing its strength. He therefore undertook to put an end
to the trouble. Constantine himself of course neither knew or cared about the matter in dispute but he was eager
to bring the controversy to a close." Thus the trinity doctrine was finally thrust upon the church based upon
man's endless, unfounded and complex speculations about God.
If one thinks that a passing glimpse of history is not enough, then take a good hard look from God's
Instruction Book, the Holy Bible and consider these: If the Holy Spirit is a separate person of the Godhead, then
He would certainly be Christ's Father: For Matthew 1:20, speaking of Mary states, "That which is conceived in
her is of the Holy Ghost (Spirit)." See also Luke 1:35 which showed that the power of the Holy Spirit came upon
Mary and caused conception. Yet Christ called God His Father and not the Holy Spirit (John 20:17). In His most
agonizing and trying moments on earth Christ always prayed to the Father and not to the Holy Spirit (John 17:1).
Clearly, even with these two compelling biblical evidences alone can one afford to entertain the idea that our
Savior Himself did not know who His Father is ?
If the Holy Spirit is a separate person of the Godhead, co-equal with the Father and the Son would it not
be an outrageous irreverence - a serious offense to the point of being blasphemous on the part of the Apostle Paul
not to mention the Holy Spirit in all of his salutations to the brethren of God's true church ? All along, Paul
routinely invoked the name of the Father and the Son but never that of the Holy Spirit in all of his fourteen
epistles from Romans to Hebrews. Imagine for the Apostle Paul to blatantly neglect this vital truth if indeed it
is true that the Holy Spirit is a distinct person of the Godhead.
In Romans 8:17, Paul identified Christians as heirs of the Father and of Christ but left out the Holy Spirit.
In 1 Corinthians 11:3 he said, "But I would have you to know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head
of a woman is man; and the head of Christ is God." Notice the beautiful chain of command responsibility Paul
is explaining here: The woman is under the man, the man is under Christ and Christ is under God. Where does
the Holy Spirit, the supposed distinct third being of the Godhead fit into all this ? Where ?
We are further given an idea on how ascendancy of power in God's government operates. We know from
Paul's writing that Christ sits at the right hand of God in God's heavenly throne. (Colossians 3:1 compared with
Hebrews 12:2). But where does the Holy Spirit sit?
Job 32:8 categorically states that there is a spirit in man and 1 Corinthians 2:10 reveals that God also has
His own Spirit that searcheth all things. But that does not make the spirit of man another person apart from that
man just as the Holy Spirit of God another person, a separate entity and co-equal of God. Would it not be a lot
of nonsense and plain irrational to say so ? The spirit of man another person separate from that man ? Ridiculous!
What an embarrassing display of self-imposed ignorance. The spirit of man imparts the power of intellect making
possible by which he can have a relationship with God while the Spirit of God is the power that emanates from
Him - the very instrumentality by which all things were made by Christ as the spokesman of the God family.
"For what man knoweth the things of man save the spirit of man which is in him ? even so the things of God
knoweth no man but the spirit of God" (1 Corinthians 2:11).
In Acts 2:38 we can read that the Holy Spirit is a gift, something that is given to those who have repented
of their sins and reconciled to God by the death of His Son."Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized
everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy
Spirit." "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh" (Acts
2:17). "On the gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit" (Acts 10:45). Now, if the Holy Spirit
is a person, can one pour out one person to another? "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance but He
that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, He shall baptize you with the Holy
Spirit and with fire" (Matthew 3:11). In 2nd Timothy 1:6, Paul reminded the young evangelist Timothy to stir
up the gift of the Holy Spirit, otherwise it will be quenched. He said: "Wherefore. I put thee to remembrance
that thou stir up the gift of God." "Quench not the Spirit" (1 Thessalonians 5:19). The Holy Spirit can also
appear as a dove. "And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water, and lo, the heavens
were opened unto Him and He saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him."
It is borne throughout the Bible that from the start there were only two personages of God. "In the
beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God" (John 1:1). When the Word was
begotten by the Father through His Holy Spirit and born through a human mother Mary that was now the time
when the relationship of God the Father and God the Son begun. "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth"
(John1:14). From that day on, it is again borne out of the Holy Scripture that God the Father have always
remained to be God the Father and Jesus Christ have always been the Son of the Living God. I suppose we could
not afford to look at them any other way. Of course, no human being have seen the Father but we can deduce
from other scriptural passages coupled by the respect accorded by Christ to the Father that God the Father like
our human father is always in authority over the son. I wonder the confusion Christ would have created among
His disciples if time and again He would appear in some other form like the Holy Spirit. After all, God is not the
Author of confusion. The Holy Spirit on the other hand is the power that emanates from God. It is something and
not someone that is given as a gift to those who have repented of their sins and not all human beings can have
it. Unlike the Father and the Son who are stationary in their spiritual state, the Holy Spirit comes in many forms
positive proof that it is not a person - enough to expose the most revered belief on the trinity as mere religious
fiction.
And if we have to go a little further, one may recall that before Christ's ascension to heaven He
commanded the apostles to remain in Jerusalem and wait for the Holy Spirit that will give them power to carry
out their commission of preaching the good news of the coming Kingdom of God. "And being assembled
together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of
the Father, which saith He, ye have heard of Me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with
the Holy Spirit not many days hence. But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you"
(Acts 1: 4-5,8). "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all of one accord in one place. And
suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they
were sitting and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them and
they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and begun to speak with other tongues, as the spirit give them utterance"
(Acts 2: 1-4). Clearly, there is nothing from among these passages could even suggest that the Holy Spirit is a
person, a distinct member of the Godhead.
It should also be noted that except for some prophets and a few other men of God the Holy Spirit have
never been made available to the whole of humanity. Until now, the world at large remain in ignorance of this
incredible but staggering reality. "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the
man that He had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the
sight, and good food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil"
(Genesis 2:8-9).
Man have sinned, so the story goes. "So He drove out the man, and He placed at the east of the garden
Cherubims and a flaming swords which turns in every way, to keep the way of the tree of life" (Genesis 3:24).
Did you get that! Cherubims and flaming swords turning in every way was placed in the garden so that man
won't be able to enter paradise anymore and partake of the tree of life. "And the Lord God said, Behold the man
is become one of Us, to know good and evil: and now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life,
and eat, and live forever" (Genesis 3:22). Ask any pastor, evangelist or religious scholars and they will tell you
that the tree of life is a symbol of the Holy Spirit of God but one thing they are ignorant about is the fact that
God's Holy Spirit have been generally withheld to the whole of humanity. Why? Because God knows that sin
have its own way of multiplying. That once man could partake of the tree of life and life forever with all the
wickedness and evils in his veins he will never attain happiness in that miserable condition. "And God saw that
the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually" (Genesis 6:5). No wonder, of the entire human race, only an insignificant eight were saved
from the flood to start a new civilization.
It is also a matter of record that even during the entire period of Christ's ministry, the spirit of God was still
withheld from humanity. "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man
thirst, let him come unto Me and drink. He that believeth in Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water. But this He speak of the spirit which they that believe on Him should receive; for the
Holy Spirit was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified" (John 7:37-39). That is why even Israel
whom we know to be God's chosen people failed to live a godly life for without God's Holy Spirit conversion
is impossible. Man may be able to obey the physical requirements of the Ten Commandments but he will never
be able to comply with its spiritual intent because God's law is spiritual and man is physical.
Another vital truth we must keep fresh in our minds is that
God is a family. It is not a close family of three. The trinity doctrine
contradicts with the very purpose for which man was created. Please
recall to memory the majestic event that happened during the sixth
day of creation week. "And God made the beast of the earth after his
kind, and cattle after their kind and everything that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind, and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let
Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness and let him have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over the Cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping things
that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in His own image,
in the image of God created He him, male and female, created He
them" (Genesis 1:25-27).
If only the human mind could grasp the intended meaning of the above-quoted passages I am sure he
would immediately throw away the satanic idea of a Triune god and stand amazed at the awesome marvelous
plan God had set in motion of reproducing himself. Take the time to consider: The beast were made after their
kind, the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after their kind. Then in verse 26 we
find the amazing revelation that man was made after the God kind. We were made in God's image, in His
likeness. In other words, we look like God. While all others were made after their own kind, we alone have been
made after the God kind. Of course, God is a spirit (John 4: 24) and we cannot see Him yet but when we are
resurrected we will see Him as He is.
So we were created after God's likeness and image. As such, we were given power to have dominion
over all other creations. As human beings, flesh and blood, this authority was given in a limited sense.
Momentarily, all earthly things but Hebrews 2 gives us added insight into our ultimate potentials. Verse 5 says:
"For unto the angels hath He not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak." In short, the world
to come was not subjected to the angels and though man are now made a little lower than them yet all things
including the angels will ultimately be subjected to their authority. "Thou madest him a little lower than the
angels, thou crownedst him with glory and honor and didst set him over the works of thy hands: Thou hast put
all things in subjection under his feet, For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not
put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him" (Hebrews 2:7-8). Notice further, "Who shall
change our vile body that it maybe fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He
is able even to subdue all things unto Himself" (Phil 3:21). "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth
not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him for we shall see
Him as He is"(1 John 3:2). "Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end" (Isaiah 9:7).
How plain ! God is a family. A growing family. An ever expanding family into which we may be born. The
ultimate purpose of man is to inherit "all things" the whole universe when we are actually born as spirit members
of the God family. " For even the creation groans with eager longing for the birth of the sons of God" (Rom
8:22). Meanwhile, God is a family composed only of two God-beings with the Holy Spirit sustaining the entire
creation. But soon, millions, if not billions of human beings who through a process of overcoming will join them
to compose God's Family in the Kingdom of God.
The Bible is replete with evidences of a family relationship. The word trinity on the other hand is never
mentioned in the Bible, NOT EVEN ONCE. The pagan doctrine of the trinity does not include any of us because
it limits God to three. Satan can't be in the God Family. He does not want us to be there either. So, the next time
around, we better ask ourselves - could we possibly be in the kingdom while nurturing a wrong concept of what
the Holy Spirit really is ? Better search out the matter "And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are
sealed unto the day of redemption" (Ephesians 4: 30).
Romeo Samudio