I
read your link on the Holy Spirit (Sep 12).It doesn’t surprise me that over 60% of church-goers
deny the personage,
even existence of the Holy Spirit.We
are living in the era of the Laodicean church, which signals
corruption and unsound
doctrine, leading to the return of our glorious God and Savior
– Jesus Christ!
In
2017, I came to know the Holy Spirit in a fuller and much more
accurate
way.Specifically,
although I already
believed it mentally, I was shown the feminine nature and
motherly attributes
of the Spirit of God.Holy
Spirit is
translated Ruach in Hebrew, which is always feminine
in gender.Also in
Aramaic, the language spoken by
Jesus, the word for Spirit is feminine (RUCHE). Whenever He
referred to the Holy Spirit, He did so in the
feminine tense. In
all New Testament
references, the Greek is either neuter gender or feminine, in
spite of the
translators using "he" to describe Holy Spirit.Proverbs 8,
according to the majority of
theologians, refers to the Holy Spirit.In this Proverb, the object is consistently referred to
in the feminine
sense.
Johannes van Oort writes: “The
earliest Christians – all of whom were Jews – spoke of the
Holy Spirit as a
feminine figure. The present article discusses the main proof
texts, ranging
from the ‘Gospel according to the Hebrews’ to a number of
testimonies from the
second century. The ancient tradition was, in particular, kept
alive in East
and West Syria, up to and including the fourth century
Makarios and/or Symeon,
who even influenced ‘modern’ Protestants such as John Wesley
and the Moravian
leader Count von Zinzendorf. It is concluded that, in the
image of the Holy
Spirit as woman and mother, one may
attain a better appreciation of the fullness of the Divine.”http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/hts/v72n1/26.pdf#:~:text=An%20essential%20background%20to%20the%20occurrence%20of%20the,Aramaic%20the%20word%20for%20Spirit%2C%20rucha%2C%20is%20feminine.