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What are the Holy Ghost's pronouns?

Don2 (Don1 Revised)

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If it's a spirit, you might think of it as an "it/It," gender neuter. Since it's part of the trinity, you might think of it as a "they/them/They/Them." Since it is somehow a reflection or aspect of Yahweh, you might think of it as a "he/him/He/Him." On the other hand, many scholars often go back to original sources in completely different contexts, and so those originalists, if being consistent, would observe in Hebrew and Aramaic, the word used for spirit/ghost is feminine, making it a "she/her/She/Her."

Gender of the Holy Spirit

In Christian theology, the gender of the Holy Spirit has been the subject of some debate in recent times.

The grammatical gender of the word for "spirit" is in Hebrew (רוּחַ, rūaḥ),[1] in Greek (πνεῦμα, pneûma) and masculine in Latin (spiritus). The neutral Greek πνεῦμα is used in the Septuagint to translate the Hebrew רוּחַ.

The Holy Spirit was furthermore equated with the (grammatically feminine) Wisdom of God by two early Church fathers, Theophilus of Antioch (d. 180) and by Irenaeus (d. 202/3). However, the majority of theologians have, historically, identified Wisdom with Christ the Logos.

Gregory of Nazianzus in the fourth century wrote that terms like "Father" and "Son" in reference to the persons of the trinity are not to be understood as expressing essences or energies of God but are to be understood as metaphors. The same position is still held in the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church.[2]
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For Semitic languages, such as ancient Syriac, the earliest liturgical tradition and established gender usage for referring to the Holy Spirit is feminine.[14]

The Syriac language, which was in common use around AD 300, is derived from Aramaic. In documents produced in Syriac by the early Miaphysite church (which later became the Syriac Orthodox Church) the feminine gender of the word for spirit gave rise to a theology in which the Holy Spirit was considered feminine.[15]

So what's the answer?

In the Catholic Church, the Holy Spirit is referred to in English as "He" in liturgical texts;[12] however, the Holy See directs that "the established gender usage of each respective language [is] to be maintained."[13]

So... non-binary?
 
So...to cut to the chase...Jesus was the product of a non-menstruating woman and a gender fluid sleepover buddy? And he grew up with the world thinking Joe was his dad, and he thought Jehovah was his dad, and they were all wrong? And this never became a custody case?? If I were Jesus, I'd be returning too, just to clear up this dumpster fire.
 
In professional settings I generally use neuter pronouns, just to avoid the controversy. It does not attract notice/ire the way he or she sometimes does.
 
Ok, so, my thought on the matter here is that the holy ghost is an "it".

IF I am correct about what Jesus meant by the Trinity (BIG IF), the the holy ghost would be the social cloud of ideas and words and communications that exists both in and around humanity.

Parts of it are literal humans, or bits of them, or wiggles in the air, or marks in a book, combined with more human parts that translate those written or spoken parts out of where those exist to reify some bit of it.

Some of it is buried in human genetics, in terms of some specific set of traits that when they come together just right, precipitate into a process to make a human with a particular predisposition to autism.

Some of it is buried in the circumstances that lead to a particular set of events that leverages that kind of person into full-blown autism and an interest in pursuing the Wisdom of God above all else.

It is so diffuse, existing in a media so weird and varied, that Jesus and all the others of the ancient world would only be able to see this in terms of "spirituality" and some thing existing outside of nature rather as a "cloud" of natural stuff interacting with other natural stuff.

It is the collective consciousness of people in general, or at least buried somewhere in there.

That stuff doesn't properly have a gender. Arguably given the extreme comorbidly between this particular kind of autism and gender issues, and the fact that gnostics have long thought that the supreme manifestation of the divine, the complete precipitation of the Holy Spirit itself is a hermaphrodite, I would say they/them or it, depending on whether it's personified.

Uncomfortably, this presents a physical mechanism by which this thing called "the Holy Spirit" has physical existence and reality, something you can, in some moment, point to and say "this is a physical particle of that cloud".

This is what it would be physically.

As to what it contains logically, this would be interpreted within such world views as to specifically be the parts of the larger cloud that encode the realizations people have made about the fact we ought build up the world for each others' sake and for our own, the emergent logic and structure of agent and goal-oriented action and game theory, and the reasons why we pursue this outcome.

This would in some respects define all individuals who originate these thoughts from first principles "Jesus", and would define whatever aspect of math from which said game theory arises "God the Father".

I don't think calling these things god is appropriate, however this seems to be how the language was used by the original autistic author.
 
First of all, the Bible writers were not autistic. They didn't even have the measles vaccine back then.
We probably won’t have it much longer now, either, with The Orange Goon and RFK Jr., in charge, the former honoring the memory of his vile father and the latter shaming the memory of his.
 
In Roman Catholicism priests are called fathers even though they are not fathers (some exceptions occur obviously).
Funnily enough the member of the Trinity (which incidentally is a post-Biblical concept, it doesn't exist in the Bible itself) called the father is not Jesus's father. It is the Holy Spirit that paid that visit to Mary and got her pregnant. It is a very strange mythology.
 
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