Is the Holy Spirit omniscient?

Question

What is your reference? If it's the Bible don't just type "the Bible", give me chapter and verse please. thanks!

Answer 1

The King James version Bible.

Answer 2

No. At Mark 13:32, Jesus Christ said: “But of that day or that hour [of God’s coming execution of judgment] no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” But if the Father and the Son are coequal, how could the Son be ignorant of things the Father knows? ‘Jesus had two natures,’ some will answer. ‘Here he is speaking as a man.’ And, yet, even if that were so, what about the “Holy Ghost”? If it is the third person of the Trinity, why does it not know? A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And the “Holy Ghost” is part of the Trinitarian chain.

Similarly, on an earlier occasion Jesus had said: “No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son.” (Luke 10:22) Once again, what about the “Holy Ghost”? If it is a conscious part of the “Godhead,” coequal with the Father and the Son, why does it not know?

Answer 3

I have stopped believing in the Holy Spirit.  I once commited my life to Christ and have been involved in various churches.  The Holy Spirit is supposed to give the faithful the power to lead a truly Christian life, which i would say is a life where less sin is committed than if one were not Christian.  In fact, this does not happen.  Christian values are quite clearly outlined in Scripture and it's quite easy to spot if people are following them.  Decades of evidence have convinced me that Christians actually behave worse than most non-Christian friends of mine, judged by their own standards.  Consequently, there is no Holy Spirit in the conventional Christian sense.  I am now a unitarian and i would suggest to anyone who believes in the Trinity that they follow the evidence of their own conscience, because it's a non-Scriptural lie.

Answer 4

God is.  God is God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.

Answer 5

One of the first reasons given for denying the divine nature of the Holy Spirit is often to point out that the Greek word for "spirit" (pneuma) is neuter. John 14:26, for example, refers to the Spirit as to pneuma to hagion (the Holy Spirit). The claim goes that Father and the Son are clearly personal, masculine terms, and therefore, they are revealed as persons. "Spirit" being neuter, on the other hand, supposedly indicates we are dealing with an impersonal force rather than a person.

Catholics agree that spirit in Greek is a neuter term. But this does not necessarily mean the Holy Spirit is impersonal. Nouns in Greek are assigned gender as they are in many languages. In Latin and the modern romance languages, this is the case as well. For example, the Latin word for lance is lancea, which is feminine. This does not mean that lances or daggers are actually female and personal! The same can be said for Greek words such as kardia, heart. The fact that this Greek word is feminine does not indicate hearts to be female and personal. Nor does the fact that a word like baros, Greek for arrow, which is neuter, indicate arrows to be impersonal forces. Words are simply assigned gender in these languages.

Further, if being referred to as "spirit" indicates the third person of the Blessed Trinity is impersonal, then both angels and God the Father would have to be "forces" rather than persons as well. In John 4:24, Jesus says "God is spirit (Greek pneuma) and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." And in Hebrews 1:14, angels are referred to as "ministering spirits (Greek pneumata) sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation." The key here is to examine the context and usage of a word in Scripture, rather than just its "gender," in order to determine whether we are dealing with a person, a force, or perhaps just an arrow.

Speaking of the importance of context, the verse of Scripture used to "prove" the Holy Spirit to be an impersonal force actually demonstrates, when examined more fully, that the Holy Spirit is both personal and masculine. John 14:26 says: "But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."