{"id":7819,"date":"2006-11-17T12:22:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=7819"},"modified":"2019-08-20T18:17:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T23:17:35","slug":"was-the-spirit-of-christ-the-holy-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/was-the-spirit-of-christ-the-holy-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the spirit of Christ the Holy Spirit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Was the spirit of Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit? We say the Jesus is God. Jesus said that God is Spirit. This implies that the Spirit also has a sub-spirit. The spirit of Jesus was certainly not the Holy Spirit because while dying on the cross he uttered: &#8220;Father into thy hands I give my spirit.&#8221; Also when He was resurrected his spirit came back to him and now He is in His corporate body in heaven. This brings me to the conclusion that Jesus Christ had a human spirit and still have the same. How does it fit into Trinity?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>There is no reason to separate one&#8217;s spirit from the person. Read through the lesson on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/soul-and-spirit\/\">Soul and Spirit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not the same being. John 16:7 shows this when Jesus said, &#8220;<em>Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.<\/em>&#8221; The Helper, the Holy Spirit, is clearly distinct from Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere does the Bible state that Jesus had a human spirit. It states that he came in human form or human flesh, but the body is not the spirit.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the idea of the Godhead and Trinity, read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-the-holy-spirit-jesus\/\">Is the Holy Spirit Jesus?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Was the spirit of Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit? We say the Jesus is God. Jesus said that God is Spirit. This implies that the Spirit also has a sub-spirit. The spirit of Jesus was certainly not the Holy Spirit because while dying on the cross he uttered: &#8220;Father into thy hands I give&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[347,86,73,87],"class_list":["post-7819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-godhead","tag-holy-spirit","tag-jesus","tag-trinity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12164,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/are-jesus-the-father-and-the-spirit-three-manifestations-of-the-same-one-spirit\/","url_meta":{"origin":7819,"position":0},"title":"Are Jesus, the Father, and the Spirit three manifestations of the same one Spirit?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I see that you believe in the water baptism and the necessity of that being the remission of the sins that are forgiven. I note that in the Book of Acts, and God showed me this at 16 years old, that the apostles always baptized in the name of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2760,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-the-holy-spirit-jesus\/","url_meta":{"origin":7819,"position":1},"title":"Is the Holy Spirit Jesus?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 19, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Answer: \"Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 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What that means is that we baptize people with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23453,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/did-jesus-receive-the-holy-spirit-when-he-was-baptized\/","url_meta":{"origin":7819,"position":3},"title":"Did Jesus receive the Holy Spirit when he was baptized?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 18, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: My question is about Jesus and him being baptized. Did he receive the Holy Spirit during his baptism? Answer: When Peter said, \"Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13442,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-spirit-cannot-be-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":7819,"position":4},"title":"The spirit cannot be God","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: [Note: This has been severely reduced from the original because it was too long and filled with twisted usage of the Scriptures. I am only presenting a summary so you can get the gist of the arguments made.] The spirit cannot be God. If your congregation is singing praises\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1512,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/subtle-references-to-the-trinity-of-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":7819,"position":5},"title":"Subtle References to the Trinity of God","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 1, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Text: Isaiah 48:12-16 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Often I find people making statements, such \u201cthe Holy Spirit is never said to be Deity, Divine in any way.\u201d Or, statements that Jesus is the first of creation and thus is not fully God (or divine). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The problem is that proof or denial often requires\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sermon&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/sermon\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}