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The Holy Spirit is classified on an equal level with the Father and the Son. According to Peter’s words, to lie to the Holy Spirit is to lie to God. | |||
:''But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to '''lie to the Holy Spirit''' and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? '''You have not lied to man but to God.'''”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ac 5:3–4.</ref> | |||
God’s temple is the place where God himself dwells, which Paul explains by the fact that “God’s Spirit” dwells in it, thus apparently equating God’s Spirit with God himself. | |||
:''Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Co 3:16.</ref> | |||
David attributes the divine characteristic of omnipresence to the Holy Spirit, something that is not true of any of God’s creatures. It seems that David is equating God’s Spirit with God’s presence. To go from God’s Spirit is to go from his presence, but if there is nowhere that David can flee from God’s Spirit, then he knows that wherever he goes he will have to say, “You are there.”<ref>Wayne A. Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine (Leicester, England; Grand Rapids, MI: Inter-Varsity Press; Zondervan Pub. House, 2004), 237.</ref> | |||
:''Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ps 139:7–8.</ref> | |||
Paul attributes the divine characteristic of omniscience to the Holy Spirit: | |||
:''For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 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.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Co 2:10–11.</ref> | |||
Jesus attributes the activity of giving new birth to everyone who is born again to the Holy Spirit: | |||
:''Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is '''born of the Spirit''' is spirit.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Jn 3:5–6.</ref> | |||
And John attributes it to God, meaning that the Holy Spirit is God: | |||
:''No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been '''born of God'''.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Jn 3:9.</ref> | |||
==There is one God== | |||