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Old 05-14-2009, 06:19 PM
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It is very much a trained habit for me to use "Holy Spirit" instead of "Holy Ghost", although I completely agree that the use of "Ghost" is entirely proper. The earlier explanation as to the person as "Ghost" and office as "Spirit" make some sense. (I have not spent much time examining it.)

My training comes as a result of an overwhelming misuse of the name "Holy Ghost" by shysters and fly-by-night tent preachers that frequent our area as well as the large presence of "churches" that specialize in giving everyone in sight the "holyghost" (with the emphasis on the first syllable), whether or not they show ANY signs of true salvation. ( I've had an uncountable number of bus kids and Bible Club kids of assorted young ages who have told of getting the "holyghost" at their church. None have come close to explaining what that really meant). All that to say, I trained myself to speak of the "Holy Spirit" always in an effort to distance my words from the confusion that abounds around here.