"On the whole, the New Testament, like the Old, speaks of the Spirit as a divine energy or power." - A Catholic Dictionary
"It is important to realize that for the first Christians the Spirit was thought of in terms of divine power." - New Bible Dictionary
"The OT clearly does not envisage God's spirit as a person...God's spirit is simply God's power...The majority of NT texts reveal God's spirit as something, not someone; this is especially seen in the parallelism between the spirit and the power of God." - The Catholic Ency
"The Hebrew word ruah (usually translated `spirit') is often found in texts referring to the free and unhindered activity of God, .... There was, however, no explicit belief in a separate divine person in Biblical Judaism; in fact, the New Testament itself is not entirely clear in this regard" - Encyclopedia Britannica Micropaedia
"The doctrine of the Holy Spirit [as a person who is God] is a distinctly Christian [?] one.... the Spirit of Jehovah [in the OT] is the active divine principle in nature. .... But it is in the New Testament [NT] that we find the bases of the doctrine of the Spirit's personality." And "Yet the early Church did not forthwith attain to a complete doctrine; nor was it, in fact, until after the essential divinity of Jesus had received full ecclesiastical sanction [in 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicaea] that the personality of the Spirit was explicitly recognized, and the doctrine of the Trinity formulated." Also, "It is better to regard the Spirit as the agency which, proceeding from the Father and the Son, dwells in the church as the witness and power of the life therein." - Encyclopedia Americana
"In the New Testament there is no direct suggestion of the Trinity. The Spirit is conceived as an impersonal power by which God effects his will through Christ." - Encyclopedia of Religion
"As in earlier Jewish thought, pneuma [`spirit'] denotes that power which man experiences as relating him to the spiritual realm of reality which lies beyond ordinary observation and human control. Within this broad definition pneuma has a fairly wide range of meaning. But by far the most frequent use of pneuma in the NT (more than 250 times) is as a reference to the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, that power which is most immediately of God as to source and nature." - New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology
"It is important to realize that for Paul too the Spirit is a divine power whose impact upon or entrance into a life is discernible by its effects." - The Spirit in the Pauline Letters (pp. 693-701, Vol. 3, Zondervan, 1986)
"The emergence of Trinitarian speculations in early church theology led to great difficulties in the article about the Holy Spirit. For the being-as-person of the Holy Spirit, which is evident in the New Testament as divine power...could not be clearly grasped...The Holy Spirit was viewed not as a personal figure but rather as a power" - The New Encyclopedia Britannica
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During the 4th Century, 300 years after Jesus Christ died, a doctrine was created. This doctrine was not based on the Bible or the teachings of Jesus and his Apostles. This was a doctrine created by man. Through humble research, reasoning on scriptures, historical references and understanding of the original biblical languages it will be revealed just how Holey the Trinity is.
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