The scriptures clearly state that God the Father and the Holy Spirit are one and the same person. If you will compare what the Angel Gabriel said to the Virgin Mary and Joseph about the conception of Jesus, it should be clear in everyone’s mind that God and the Holy Spirit are not two different beings.
In the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke it reports that the Angel Gabriel told Mary that the Holy Spirit would come upon her and the power of God would overshadow her and the child would be called the Son of God. Both the Holy Spirit and Almighty God came upon her because they are one and the same. Then again in the first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew it reports to us that Mary was found with child of the Holy Spirit. So if Mary was with child of God and with child of the Holy Spirit, this confirms that God the Father and the Holy Spirit are one and the same.
So, if you want to believe in the Trinity, a false teaching of many churches, this proves that the trinity of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit does not exist as three persons.
Now to continue on concerning the fact that God is not a ghost, let us examine what the scriptures say about the Holy Spirit vs. the Holy Ghost.
At no place in the Old Testament is the Spirit of God referred to as “the Holy Ghost”. God’s Spirit is called the “Holy Spirit” on three occasions in the Old Testament and nowhere in the Old Testament is God’s Spirit called “the Holy Ghost”.
In the New Testament, God’s Spirit is called the “Holy Spirit in four places and is called “the Holy Ghost” ninety times. Both the Holy Spirit and the Holy Ghost were translated from the same Greek word that can mean Ghost and Spirit either one. So why was the Greek word translated into the English word “Ghost” so many times and translated into “Spirit” just four times? It amounts to nothing more than the personal preference of the Bible translators probably influenced by the teaching they received from previous theologians.
Is it wrong to refer to the Spirit of God by using the word ghost rather than Spirit? Absolutely not because either word Ghost or Spirit is a correct translation. From my own point of view I prefer using the word Spirit when speaking of God’s Spirit. The word Spirit to me reflects on the spirit of a living being and the word ghost is thought of as an apparition or visual representation of a dead person.
Well, my God is alive and not dead, so my preference is to refer to the Spirit of God as the Holy Spirit.
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