{"id":4736,"date":"2013-06-08T09:40:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T13:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2015-05-26T15:18:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T19:18:46","slug":"linkage-kermit-zarley-on-the-holy-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-kermit-zarley-on-the-holy-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kermit Zarley on the Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4737\" style=\"border: 11px solid white;\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moon-300x300.gif\" alt=\"moon\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moon-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moon-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moon-90x90.gif 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Theology blogger \/ author \/ golf pro <a title=\"Kermit Zarley home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kermitzarley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kermit Zarley<\/strong><\/a> <a title=\"Zarley post: the Holy Spirit is not a person\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2013\/06\/the-holy-spirit-is-not-a-person-gods-identity-that-only-worsens\/\" target=\"_blank\">posts on the Holy Spirit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> centuries, there was <strong>no consensus<\/strong> among church fathers, called \u201capologists,\u201d about the constitution of the Holy Spirit. Most of them didn\u2019t think it was important. In fact, there was a widespread fluidity of ideas among Christians about it. Some thought the Holy Spirit was an impersonal power; others ascribed full personality to the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;it should be understood from creation that <em>the Spirit of God is to God what the spirit of man is to man<\/em>. Since <strong>man\u2019s spirit is not a person<\/strong> as we moderns understand personhood, God\u2019s Spirit must not be a person either. Rather, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father (Matthew 10.20; Mark 13.11). (emphases added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out t<a title=\"Zarley on the Holy Spirit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2013\/06\/the-holy-spirit-is-not-a-person-gods-identity-that-only-worsens\/\" target=\"_blank\">he whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theology blogger \/ author \/ golf pro Kermit Zarley posts on the Holy Spirit. A few excerpts: During the 2nd and 3rd centuries, there was no consensus among church fathers, called \u201capologists,\u201d about the constitution of the Holy Spirit. Most of them didn\u2019t think it was important. In fact, there was a widespread fluidity of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-kermit-zarley-on-the-holy-spirit\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kermit Zarley on the Holy Spirit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,4,14,55,13,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-history","category-holy-spirit","category-theologians","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6733,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions\/6733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}