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Old 05-14-2009, 07:23 PM
ChaplainPaul ChaplainPaul is offline
 
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Er.. that idea of Holy Ghost being something like Casper has never occurred to me, ever!

Actually, I remember hearing this Pentecostal lady saying when she received "holy ghost" she had this white sheet (like a table cloth or something like that) on top of her.. Perhaps the Pentecostals may think so..?
Nope. Until my class with Erickson's theology book, I had never heard of such a thing, and I grew up in a Pentecostal environment. That white sheet thing, that's the Klan, that's not the Pentecostals.

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So basically the reason why they changed "Holy Ghost" to "Holy Spirit" would be because they thought people would conceive Holy Ghost as something inside a white sheet..? :S
Tough to say. That's the age-old question of which came first...the corrected modern versions or the corrections to the modern versions? Maybe Erickson's mother was Pentecostal and talked about the HOLYGhost (I like that accent!) and the kids at school made fun of him about it, so now he's real sensitive.