From: Byron Bezdek (bbezdek@citynet.metrolinks.com)
Date: Mon Dec 01 1997 - 19:22:12 EST
Wes Williams wrote:
> > From: Martin Arhelger <martin.arhelger@metronet.de>
> >
> > Acts 5:3 - 4: Peter said: "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to
> lie
> > to the Holy Spirit ... You have not lied to men but to God." Acts 5:9 But
> > Peter said to her (that is, Sapphira), "How is it that you have agreed
> > together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? ..."
> >
> > This verses proof, that Peter had a clear awareness of a Holy Spirit
> being
> > a) a person (How could Ananias have lied to a thing or force ?)
>
> This certainly is a reasonable question. In English it is akward to "lie"
> to impersonal things. However, I find that in Greek this does not hold. For
> example, we have James 3:14:
>
> (from the Nestle-Aland Greek-English NT 8th Edition)
> Greek: MH ... YEUDESQE KATA THS ALHQEIAS
> English: Do not ... be false to the truth.
> Alt: "lie against the truth"
>
If the NT writers view all Truth as eminating from PNEUMA HAGION (as is my
view), then the "truth" may also be personal?
Byron T. Bezdek
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