It is not too difficult to think of God as the Father and God as the Son, but God the Holy Spirit presents us with a problem. It is easy to think of Father and Son as personalities but it is not so straightforward to think of God the Holy Spirit as a person. The tendency is to think of the Holy Spirit as a power or influence—an ‘it’ not a ‘he’. This would be a fatal mistake because the Holy Spirit is as much God as the Father and Son. We have already seen in Isaiah 6 and John 12
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