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Re: Identity of the Holy Ghost [message #2551 is a reply to message #895] Wed, 05 June 2013 13:47 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Admittedly, I am young and not a gospel scholar, but it just seems that we are missing the mark when it comes to understanding the holy ghost. I don't get if there is supposed to be just ONE holy ghost for Israel, or for earth, or for our galaxy, or our universe, or even for infinite multi-universes. I've been told that he(?) is a personage of spirit and is the third member of the godhead whom is perfectly synchronized at all times with the minds of the Father and Son and the only member certified to ALWAYS tell us the pure truth. When I think of a personage I think of a person like me in one place at one time. So I don't understand how the holy ghost can be our constant companion and dwell in each of us if he is just one personage in one place at one time. I was taught that the holy ghost broadcasts like the tv or radio and that is how he can be everywhere, but instead of just one message being broadcast to all of us the holy ghost customizes his message and actions for each of us, so the tv broadcast model just doesn't make any sense.

We speak so eloquently of the virtually unlimited powers accessible through the holy ghost who knows everything and can teach us ALL truth and provide us with incredible super hero powers as various gifts of the spirit. Indeed, that these gifts would follow them that believe. However, when the rubber meets the road we have a tendency to dial all that back to a very still small voice that we are lucky if it helps us choose the right brand of soup at the grocery store. Rather than healing cripples and blind people and being ministered to by holy angels, we renige and say well, that's why they Lord has given us modern doctors and drugs, so we don't need to do that healing stuff and all the works that Christ said we would do, anymore. With our access to unlimited knowledge through the holy ghost we should be inventing free energy machines, and helping out the perplexed theoretical physicists understand dark matter and life in the universe. Instead, we quiver our lips bearing our testimony and say that is pretty much the same thing.

When I ask these type of questions and make these type of observations, I have my morality questioned and asked if it may be that my personal radio tubes are not all functioning properly and btw am I attending all my meetings; even suggesting that I may be apostate and that the prophet will let me know if I need to understand these things or not; or that all these things are actually happening constantly to every member except me but they are too sacred to talk about. Now I am getting all upset which is pretty much the norm I guess for girls with red hair. But I'm not going to stop seeking the answers nor stop seeking for further enlightenment. So if anybody on this forum can provide me even just a little more insight I would love you so much for it.
 
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