In this episode Pastor Sean Finnegan and I discuss biblical spirit-talk: "the Holy Spirit," "the Spirit of the LORD," "God's spirit," "the Spirit of Christ," etc.

Sean helpfully distinguishes four types of spirit-talk in the Bible, giving many examples from both testaments.

We also discuss traditional catholic arguments for the Holy Spirit being a third divine person in addition to the Father and the Son, theologically motivated translation problems, and why, in his view, both the catholic and Jehovah's Witness readings of spirit-texts are too simple.

In the next episode, Sean and I continue the conversation, discussing various related matters, including Matthew 28.

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Links for this episode:

* Sean's Christian Monotheism website.

* The Kingdom Ready blog.

* Sean's Christian monotheism podcast, Truth Matters radio program, and other writings and talks.

* The church where Sean is a pastor.

* Sean's informative 2013 presentation on the Holy Spirit and translation bias.

* The New Jerusalem Study Bible.

* My reviews of Sean's 2008 unitarian-trinitarian debate with Brent Bosserman.

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