he Scriptures demonstrate that the Holy Spirit is indeed a person because He has intellect, emotion, and volition. That the Holy Spirit has intellect is underscored by His ability to examine and know the deep things of God and reveal them to believers.
That the Holy Spirit can be grieved by sin denotes that He has emotions.
The volition of the Holy Spirit is demonstrated in His forbidding of Paul to preach in Asia.
- For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. - 1 Corinthians 2:10-11
- and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. - Romans 8:27
That the Holy Spirit can be grieved by sin denotes that He has emotions.
- Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. - Ephesians 4:30
The volition of the Holy Spirit is demonstrated in His forbidding of Paul to preach in Asia.
- They passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia; - Acts 16:6
- But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills. - 1 Corinthians 12:11
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