God the Holy Spirit, Mentor's Guide, MG14

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G O D T H E H O L Y S P I R I T

A. The Scriptures directly identify the Holy Spirit as God.

1. Acts 5.3-4

2. Luke 1.35

3. 2 Pet. 1.21

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4. 2 Cor. 3.17-18

B. The Spirit possesses divine capacity.

1 Cor. 2.10-11 - these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

C. The Spirit possess divine attributes.

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God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are spoken of as distinct persons in the Scriptures and yet each is spoken of as possessing the same attributes of God. (The Spirit is what God is and does what God does.)

1. Divine Nature:

To God the Spirit are ascribed attributes that belong to God alone: omniscience (Isa. 40.13; 1 Cor. 2.10-12), omnipresence (Ps. 139.7-10), omnipotence (Job 33.4; Ps. 104.30; Rom. 15.18,19), eternality (Heb. 9.14).

~Thomas C. Oden. Life in the Spirit: Systematic Theology, Vol. 3 .