

I believe in the Holy Spirit… and other annoyances



who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.


So what do you believe?



Listen to those prophets.

639ef11062a9013019e7001dd8b71c47Even when you want to bop them in the head.







Brothers and sisters:

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit;
there are different forms of service but the same Lord;
there are different workings but the same God
who produces all of them in everyone.
To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit
is given for some benefit.

As a body is one though it has many parts,
so also Christ.
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons,
and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.











How annoying!

Categories: General
Fran Rossi Szpylczyn

9 Responses

  1. mike s says:

    This is something i never understood. If there is a god, and he wanted to tell me something, why would he tell someone else to tell me? Why not speak to me? Prophets are like psychics. Half are con men and the rest are delusional.

  2. Fran Rossi Szpylczyn says:

    Welcome Mike S. Thank you for your opinion, but I clearly see and understand otherwise. The Holy Spirit is not someone else – God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit -three persons in unity as one.

  3. mike s says:

    I was talking about prophets. people who claim god speaks to them directly. How do you know they arent lying? Why wouldnt god just talk to you if he wanted to?

  4. Fran Rossi Szpylczyn says:

    I would not say that everyone who claims to hear God directly is a prophet, but some people are prophets. Maybe God is trying to speak directly, but goes unheard? The prophet is the voice of God for others. It is not like they have an earpiece and are channeling word for word.

  5. mike s says:

    It seems to me that the ones who claim to speak to god always want others to do bad things. From Moses “god said go kill every man, women and child in the next town and bring me their gold” to David Koresh and Joseph Smith “god said i can have sex with all the young girls”. I guess i’m just not that gullible.

  6. Jango Davis says:

    The concept of a Holy Spirit is a misinterpretation of the original Greek and likely was a literary analogy and not meant to reflect an actual “reality.”

    Further, consider that to gospels where written at least two generations after the life of Christ there is likely very little in them that reflects the actual words or deeds of Jesus of Nazareth, so to lean on the gospels as evidence for the concept of an entity called the “Holy Spirit” is baseless conjecture and circular reasoning, for example:

    Position: The Holy Spirit of the Bible exists because the Bible says so.
    Question: How do you know the Bible is the word of God? Position: Because the Bible says so.

    The few prophetic utterances attributed to John the Baptist and Jesus in the gospels were very likely added long after they lived. Without an independent source, we cannot put much stock that anything attributed to Jesus of John in the gospels was actually said, particularly about the “Holy Spirit.”

    Paul speaks about prophecy, but I wouldn’t trust the words of a misogynist like Paul who supported slavery. If Paul wasn’t “plugged” into the holy spirit enough to know that slavery is an abomination, I very much doubt anything he had to say about God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit can be taken as anything but an insight into the mind of a man who lived long ago and not into the nature of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God.

  7. Fran Rossi Szpylczyn says:

    OK Mike, you’ve had your say. Expressing opinions is one thing, insulting is another. I approved your comment without reading it closely, so I will leave it up, but unless you contribute to the conversation, you can’t stay in it.

  8. mike s says:

    Did i say something that wasnt true?

  9. Fran Rossi Szpylczyn says:

    Mike, I suppose that it is true of you think I am gullible. I’m not really sure why you are here other than as a troll. If you want to ask questions and state respectful opinions, you are welcome. Hospitality to all is important to me, but there are limits. If not, no harm done, but in that case there is nothing to see here, please move along.