WHAT DOES THE BIBLE Really TEACH? A WT book—Chapter 10 Part 1 "Spirit Creatures--How they Affect Us"

DISCLAIMER--I will, by no means, exhaustively write about each and every error in each and every chapter of this book—that would require a book several times the size of this WT book. I will pick out a topic or two from each chapter to write about. Some will be a “mole hill” in the landscape of Bible doctrine and others will be a “Mt. Everest.”

Chapter 10 “Spirit Creatures—How They Affect Us” Back in Chapter 4 page 40 the WT introduces the Holy Spirit as God’s active force. The WT describes this force as “the invisible active force of Almighty God which moves his servants to do his will.” They have also described it as “the impersonal, invisible active force that finds its source and reservoir in Jehovah God and that he uses to accomplish his will even at great distances.” Thus the Holy Spirit is therefore neither God nor a person; he is merely an impersonal force. I said then that I would discuss the Holy Spirit in Chapter 10—so here goes.

There are many places the words Holy Spirit are used in the Bible and in all cases the WT does not capitalize the words because they say the Holy Spirit is not the third person of the Trinity. Consider the following table:

Is the Holy Spirit the Third Person of the Trinity 

OR

An Invisible Active Force?

YOU DECIDE! 

Description / The Father Jehovah	The Son: Jesus	The Holy Spirit
Called God / Psalms 89:26	Titus 2:13	Acts 5:3-4
Creator / Isaiah 44:24	Colossians 1:16 John 1:3	Job 33:4
Raised Jesus / 1 Thess. 1:9-10	John 2:19-21	Romans 8:11
Wrote Scripture / Exodus 20:22	John 5:24	1 Timothy 4:1
Blasphemy Punished / Exodus 20:7	Luke 12:8-9	Matthew 12:31
Eternal / Psalms 93:2	Isaiah 9:6	Hebrews 9:14
All Knowing / Psalms 147:5	John 2:24-25	Isaiah 40:13-14
Omnipresent / Jeremiah 23:24	Matthew 18:20	Psalms 139:7-10
Called God / Philippians 1:2	John 1:1, 14	Acts 5:3-4
Indwells / 1 Thess. 1:10	Colossians 1:27	John 14:17
Sanctifies / 1 Thess. 5:23	Hebrews 2:11	1 Peter 1:2
Directed God's word / Zechariah 1:3, 6	Matthew 28:17-20	Acts 13:2

Part 2 is here.