Is the Holy Ghost really an eagle and not a dove?

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How strong is the Biblical evidence that the Holy Ghost is a dove and not an eagle?

How strong is the Biblical evidence that the Holy Ghost is really a carrier pigeon and not a dove?

If the Holy Ghost turned out to be a parrot from South America, would your faith be shaken so you would stop going to Church?

If the Holy Ghost turned out to be invisible, would your faith be shaken so you would stop going to Church?

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The God of Judaism (believed to be invisible)

The God of the New Testament/Christianity (believed to be Jesus Christ and a helper known as the Holy Ghost - a dove).

Jesus Christ is believed to have been visible but the Holy Ghost was invisible.

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The Bible says that the Holy Spirit appeared to Jesus in the form of a dove when He was baptised. It does not say that the Holy Spirit was a dove.

By way of comparison: Movies are (or at least were) shown by shining a bright light through a celluloid film, which reeled past at a speed sufficient to give the illusion of movement. Your question is equivalent to watching a screening of Titanic, then asking if a beam of light is Leonardo diCaprio or Kate Winslet. The correct answer would be both, neither, and none of the above - the bright light, when projected through the film, would cause the appearance of the actors. Similarly, the Holy Spirit is neither dove, nor eagle, nor macaw, nor blue-footed booby - although at need I would imagine it could appear in any of those forms.

Oh, and the God of the New Testament is the God of the Torah - with some new information based on humans' changed understanding of the world. Jesus is supposed to have been the Son of God, cast into a human form so that nobody could say that He had no idea what it was like to be human - He was human, for something like 33 years, before being tortured to death.

I confess, I have trouble grasping the concept of a unitary God Who is, at the same moment, trinary - I think I understand it best when I think of each one as a separate aspect of the same Deity. (And, of course, that leaves open the concept that perhaps other gods in other cultures are other aspects of Him as well - "In My Father's house are many mansions," and all that...)

DeaconBlues wrote (in part): The Bible says that the Holy Spirit appeared to Jesus in the form of a dove when He was baptised. It does not say that the Holy Spirit was a dove...

I confess, I have trouble grasping the concept of a unitary God Who is, at the same moment, trinary - I think I understand it best when I think of each one as a separate aspect of the same Deity. (And, of course, that leaves open the concept that perhaps other gods in other cultures are other aspects of Him as well - "In My Father's house are many mansions," and all that...)

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Deacon - Oh, the clear conflict/clash between the idea of 1 God (Non-profit Judaism: The Lord Our God is One) vs Christianity (which, depending upon the non-profit denomination, will say God is 2 - the Judaism God and Jesus Christ or God is 3 - the Judaism God, Jesus Christ, and a helper known as the Holy Ghost dove).

Some persons have said that God is time/God is a symbol of sorts of time as in the Past, the Present, and the Future.

The idea that there is 1 God, then all of a sudden there is a second God years later - Jesus Christ - and then a third God - the Holy Ghost dove years later - and they are all identical - to me is a very foggy, fuzzy, and muddy idea.

This idea of 1 vs 2 vs 3 Gods is pretty close to asking the straightforward (nonsense) question:

Can God create a boulder so heavy he can't lift it?

Some non-profit denomination/non-profit religion is fibbing (maybe almost all non-profit religions in a way - however, if the non-profit religions view themselves as being in the non-profit religious/theatrical/opera-like entertainment business, then it might be entertainment, not fibbing) it seems to me since there is a lack of agreement between the non-profit denominations/the non-profit religions/the non-profit faiths as to how to define God - God(s) etc.

http://www.beliefnet.net

http://www.bibles.net/

http://www.sacred-texts.com/

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St. Ned Flanders

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Flanders

- pgd

what Holy Ghost?

ruveyn

Everyone knows that the Holy Ghost like God and Jesus are blonde and blue-eyed.. which would make it.. Tweety Bird!
What I want to know is, what would happen if the Holy Ghost met the Ghostbusters?

I'm no Christian, but I doubt even most Christians literally believe their Holy Spirit is a dove; they traditionally symbolically represent it as that (among other things like a tongue of fire).

The "bird" used to represent the Holly Ghost is just there to represent it and give it a physical form in art because the Holly Ghost or Holly Spirt has no physical form.

No, Punky, Sand merely knows the difference between "Holy" and "Holly"...