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Posted by rolls-royce [rollsroyce] on November 01, 1999 at 19:28:01 {2gTL9dbN6kYzk3C7MU66LA/awNC15.}:

In Reply to: To H2O Readers From 'GB' posted by ros4GB on November 01, 1999 at 18:53:51:

Here is vital question & relevant info that focuses on only one point (although it is point 1 of 6). If the TRUTH is that the WT Society is SPEAKING AGAINST THE SPIRIT THE HOLY, then there needs to be REFORM (not just before man & Doctors i.e. regarding blood) before God Himself.

For now, I'm not asking if the holy spirit is a "person" or "force". I'm asking if you agree that the following Scriptures totally & completely
refutes the WT's premise (point 1 of 6 i.e. "A" to "F") that the absent definite article indicates lack of personality?

WT PREMISE
"Since God himself is a Spirit & is holy & since all his faithful angelic sons are spirits & are holy, it is evident that if the 'holy
spirit' were a person there should reasonably be given some means in the Scriptures to distinguish & identify such spirit person
from all these other 'holy spirits.' It would be expected that, at the very least, the DEFINITE article ['the'] would be used with it
[i.e. words 'holy spirit'] in all cases where it is not called 'God's holy spirit' or is not modified by some similar expression. This
would at least distinguish it as THE Holy Spirit. But, to the contrary, in a large number of cases [47 in the Kingdom Interlinear]
the expression 'HOLY SPIRIT' appears in the original Greek WITHOUT the ARTICLE, thus INDICATING ITS LACK of
PERSONALITY." [Insight p.1019, & Aid p.1543]

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Scripture presents 5 ways it refers to holy or wicked "PNEUMA = SPIRIT".

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(1) NO ARTICLE ("the"), & NO ADJECTIVE ("holy", or "unclean", or "wicked")
- spirit (holy) - Jn.3:5,6; 4:23,24; Rom.8:4; Rev.1:10; 4:2; 17:3.
- spirit (demon) - Lk.9:39; 13:11; 2Cor.11:4; 2Th.2:2; 1Jn.4:1,3.
- spirits (demons) - Mt.12:45; Lk.11:26; 1Cor.12:10; Rev.16:13,14.

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(2) NO ARTICLE & ONE ADJECTIVE
- holy spirit - Lk.11:13; Acts 1:2; 4:25; Rom.14:17; 15:13,16,19.
- unclean spirit - Mk.1:23; 3:30; 5:2; 7:25; 9:17; Acts 16:16; Rev.18:2.
- unclean spirits - Mt.10:1; Lk.6:18; 7:21; 8:2; Acts 5:16; 8:7.

(For 3, 4 & 5, see "NEUTER" column on back cover of Kingdom Interlinear.)
(Greek neuter definite article "the" = to, tou, to, to, ta, ton, tois, ta.)
(Now you can easily find the definite article "the" in the KI for all these Scriptures.)

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(3) ONE ARTICLE
- THE Spirit (holy) - Mt.4:1; Acts 2:4; 5:9; 8:29; 16:7; Rom.8:9-11,16,26,27.
- THE spirit (demon) - Mk.9:20; Acts 16:18; Eph.2:2 (satan); 1Jn.4:3.
- THE spirits (demons) - Mt.8:16; Lk.10:20; 1Jn.4:1.

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(4) ONE ARTICLE & ONE ADJECTIVE
- THE Holy Spirit - Mt.28:19; Lk.12:10,12; Acts 9:31; 16:6; 2Cor.13:14.
- THE unclean spirit - Mt.12:43; Mk.9:25; Lk.11:24.
- THE unclean spirits - Lk.4:36.

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(5) TWO DEFINITE ARTICLES (!!!) & ONE ADJECTIVE
- THE Spirit THE Holy - Acts 1:16; 5:3,32; 7:51; 13:2; 20:23,28; 21:11; Heb.3:7; 9:8.
- THE spirit THE unclean - Mk.1:26; 5:8; 9:25; Lk.8:29; 9:42; Acts 19:15,16.
- THE spirits THE unclean - Mk.1:27; 3:11; 5:13; 6:7; Acts 19:12,13.

- 4 More Info see Point "A" & Point "1"

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