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Re: Identity of the Holy Ghost [message #2081 is a reply to message #2080] Thu, 24 January 2013 19:12 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Ryan,

You are asking wonderful questions. Perhaps, this gift of the Holy Ghost is the gift of being able to communicate with the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that is the "mind of the Lord." To be able to communicate with Holy Spirit is a gift. The fact that we all have a spirit that dwells within us doesn't mean that we are in tune with it, or that we as carnal physical beings are in communication with the world which is spiritual. To be in touch with the "mind of the Lord," is a gift. The Holy Spirit communicates to our Spirit. We may or may not hear that message depending on whether or not we receive the "Gift of the Holy Ghost." Is it the Holy Ghost that does not dwell with us, or is it the gift that does not dwell with us? Or perhaps, what would it be that would make our spirit Holy?

As for what keeps us alive, that is described in Mosiah 2:21, and D&C 88:13. It is the Holy Spirit that keeps us alive.

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I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another--

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The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed, even the power of God who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the midst of all things.


As for how Nephi describes speaking with the "Spirit of the Lord," it is exactly as it states, the Lord's spirit. The "Holy Spirit," is the mind of God.

Do our spirits have power? When we lived in the pre-existent spirit world, were we endowed with the priesthood? With what power did we use as we aided the Lord in the creation? What knowledge did we posses? What is meant by the "record of heaven?" How do we then recall the knowledge which is contained within our spirits? Why is it we cannot "remember" the details of all we knew prior to this earthly existence? Would being able to recall this knowledge contained within us be a gift?

Who was in the council described in Abraham 3? What did we see and hear and do?

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