Lactantius Jr

Submitted by Sohail (United Kingdom), Nov 21, 2006 at 09:35

5"Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' 6Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. 7But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 9in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; 10in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

12"I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. 15All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.

16"In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me." John 16: 5-16

Tell me Lactantius, what has the Holy spirit said about Jesus? What has the Holy spirit taught us? What has the Holy spirit done to your religion apart form spiliting it into many groups? Nothing I guess.

Anyway wasn't the Holy spirit they before Jesus came and with the other prophets of the Bible? In verse 16:13 it says that the Holy spirit will guide us into all truth well that can't happen because we can't see him. It all so says that he will not speak on his own, he will only speak what he hears.

Can the Holy spirit talk? Where is the Holy spirit now? Why isn't he talking to me?

I guess I be going to hell because I won't believe that Jesus is God and he died for my sins.

Sohail

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