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It's been a long time since I have debated much about my old church but since I am an ex Pentecostal does anyone have any interest in debating the gifts of the Holy Ghost, who the Holy Ghost is, what the day of Pentecost was for, speaking in tongues?
It's been a long time since I have debated much about my old church but since I am an ex Pentecostal does anyone have any interest in debating the gifts of the Holy Ghost, who the Holy Ghost is, what the day of Pentecost was for, speaking in tongues?
What I prefer to do is help you get the answers for yourself Riders.It's been a long time since I have debated much about my old church but since I am an ex Pentecostal does anyone have any interest in debating the gifts of the Holy Ghost, who the Holy Ghost is, what the day of Pentecost was for, speaking in tongues?
Why do they say holy ghost and not holy spirit?
Ghost sounds more like I'll see casper or ghostbusters.
I don't understand what you're trying to debate.It's been a long time since I have debated much about my old church but since I am an ex Pentecostal does anyone have any interest in debating the gifts of the Holy Ghost, who the Holy Ghost is, what the day of Pentecost was for, speaking in tongues?
It's been a long time since I have debated much about my old church but since I am an ex Pentecostal does anyone have any interest in debating the gifts of the Holy Ghost, who the Holy Ghost is, what the day of Pentecost was for, speaking in tongues?
No. I know it's a gimmick and niche and if you ask me, speaking in tongues gets associated now with the con of prosperity gospel , fake healing, greed, sex, lies, and videotape. Followed by its masses of hyper emotional people fanatically throwing money at their celebrity religious superstars.It's been a long time since I have debated much about my old church but since I am an ex Pentecostal does anyone have any interest in debating the gifts of the Holy Ghost, who the Holy Ghost is, what the day of Pentecost was for, speaking in tongues?
Ghost is referring to spirit being in the soul. Spirit is the person.
Yes. But why that word?
It sounds like casper and ghostbusters not christianity and god
Because of the state the person is in, which is different to the state of the person not in a soul.
Also the term ghost came before any movie called "casper".
Because of the spirit being in the soul...Why not spirit?
Regardless the origin of ghost, it's still used in movies, shoes, ghost finders, etc.
Why ghost and not spirit?
Ghost sounds more like I'll see casper or ghostbusters.
Because of the spirit being in the soul...
It really takes alot to explain to understand this fully.
Let me ask you a question. I know you are non-believer...
If you assumed for discussion sake, that a person goes somewhere after death, how do you think the person will look? Will they look as they did in the earth outside of the physical body?
Used in movies or not, there is where it came from. It came from religion. Mocking religion with movies is hilarious to me considering that is where they got their info from.
A: I would say that the change reflects the evolution of the words. Both Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit were used to refer to the Third Person of the Trinity well before the 20th century, although the former was the most common in biblical and prayer texts.
Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit | EWTN
Because of the spirit being in the soul...
It really takes alot to explain to understand this fully.
Let me ask you a question. I know you are non-believer...
If you assumed for discussion sake, that a person goes somewhere after death, how do you think the person will look? Will they look as they did in the earth outside of the physical body?
Used in movies or not, there is where it came from. It came from religion. Mocking religion with movies is hilarious to me considering that is where they got their info from.
When translating the Bible into English the scholars behind the King James Version (1611) opted to use the term Holy Ghost. This is used 90 times in the KJV, while Holy Spirit occurs seven times. The reason for the choice is not clear, as the words Ghost and Spirit translate the same Greek words.
This use of Holy Ghost had already been made in the Douay-Rheims Catholic translation, first published in 1582 and revised several times. This was the Bible chiefly used by English-speaking Catholics for several centuries.
Practically all recent translations of the Bible, both Protestant and Catholic, have preferred Holy Spirit in most instances. The reason is probably because the meaning of the word ghost has gradually shifted over the last 300 years and now predominantly refers to the vision of the specter of a deceased person or a demonic apparition.
This change in biblical texts was already standard well before it became necessary to translate the liturgical texts into English. Since liturgical and biblical texts are closely related, it was natural to follow the biblical standard in liturgical translation.
It must also be remembered that in literature the popularity of the "ghost story" had enjoyed an enormous boom from the mid-19th century on, a popularity compounded by the advent of the cinema and television.
All of this probably led translators to the conclusion that the meaning of the word Ghost had been so transformed and stereotyped that continuing to apply it to refer to the Divine Person was more likely to lead to confusion than would the alternative expression Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit therefore is now universally used in all official texts, and over the last 50 years or so has become common usage. The expression Holy Ghost, however, when properly understood, retains its validity in the context of personal prayer for those who wish to continue using it.