As we study the Bible, the work of God the Father is especially emphasized in the Old Testament. The work of God the Son is emphasized in the Gospels. From the day of Pentecost until the present, however, the emphasis is on the work of God the Holy Spirit. And yet the Bible also tells us God the Holy Spirit has been at work throughout history, from the beginning of the world.

In lieu of writing a third book, I have chosen to offer posts on the blog of my website that expand on the points presented in my two books. Dualist interaction between the immaterial and material has been defended, hopefully in a compelling manner. Concordance between Scripture and neuroscience and information theory has been demonstrated. The case has been made for indwelling of the Holy Spirit in people who are repentant and faithfully seek to follow the Counsel of the Holy Spirit. That Christian faith is evidential has been explained through Biblical and contemporary descriptions of personal events and experiences, so that we can believe in the Truth of the Holy Spirit as Counselor and Helper in our time.

The next posts on this blog will feature quotes in italics from Billy Graham’s book, The Holy Spirit: Activating God’s Power in Your Life. Doctor Graham’s worldwide evangelical ministry was guided by the Holy Spirit through prayer and with unrelenting faith, explaining to millions the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Before he died, Pope John was asked what church doctrine most needed emphasis today. He replied, "The doctrine of the Holy Spirit.” Billy Graham asked Dr. Karl Barth what he thought the next emphasis on theology would be. He replied without hesitation, “The Holy Spirit.”

Doctor Graham expressed concern over the misunderstanding and even ignorance in some Christian circles concerning the Third Person of the Trinity. How the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit relate is explained as follows: …we say that we pray to the Father through the Son and in the power of the Holy Spirit. …functionally the Father came first, then the Son became incarnate, died and rose again. Now the Spirit does His work in this age of the Spirit….trinitarianism preserves the unity of the Godhead, and at the same time it acknowledges that there are three persons in that Godhead which is still of one essence. God is one, but that oneness is not simple - it is complex. God the Father is fully God. God the Son is fully God. God the Holy Spirit is fully God. The Bible presents this as fact….although the Father is the Source of all blessing, it is through the Holy Spirit at work in us that all truth becomes living and operative in our lives.

I have presented evidence from neuroscience in my books and in several blogs posted to date that confirm dualist interaction between the immaterial Spirit of God and the human spirit and soul through the material neural synaptic networks of the human brain. The human cognitive capacity to interpret linguistic neural codes actualized within spike trains of action potentials enables work of the Holy Spirit within us.

Edited From F. F. Bruce’s Commentary on the Book of Acts (ASV, 1901):

When Saul was on the road to Damascus a bright light from heaven flashed around him and his companions about noon of that day. Saul fell to the ground and heard a voice saying, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” Saul asked, “Who are you, Lord?” Jesus answered, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they saw the light but did not hear the voice of Him that spoke to Saul.

These verses from Acts 9: 3-7 provide testimony to the internal communion Man can have in our time with the indwelling Holy Spirit by the grace of God through the sin sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, who sent the Counselor and Comforter as promised upon HIs resurrection.

From F. F. Bruce’s Commentary on the Book of Acts:

Since His ascension it is by His Spirit that Jesus communicates with his people; we may recall Paul’s description of Him as “the last Adam: who became a “life-giving spirit” (1 Cor. 15: 45)

In my two books I consider at least in part how the Spirit of Jesus communes with us via linguistic neural codes distributed through coherent neural synaptic networks, showing concordance between neuroscience and Scripture.

I am posting quotes from the wonderful book by Billy Graham, Just As I Am, which reinforce points I offer in my book, The Boundless Love of God: A Holy Spirit Story:

One of the New Testament’s most compelling images of spiritual conversion is found in the phrase born again or new birth. . . . Jesus used it in His interview with the religious leader Nicodemus: “I tell you the truth, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God” (John 3:3). We each need what Jesus was teaching: a spiritual rebirth or renewed from within, by the power of God. . . . a spiritual rebirth is something only God can do. . . . God Himself takes up residence in our lives through His Holy Spirit. He begins to change us from within and gives us a whole new reason for living.

God created us in His image. He created us and loves us so that we may live in harmony and fellowship with Him.

He yearns to forgive us and bring us back to Himself. He wants to fill our lives with meaning and purpose right now. Then He wants us to spend all eternity with Him in Heaven, free forever from the pain and sorrow and death of this world.

On July 9, 2020 I posted a blog entitled, “The Redeeming Power of God’s Dual Revelation.” In his Commentary on the Book of Acts F. F. Bruce made the following comments concerning God’s general revelation in HIs creations:

…[God] “overlooked” the times of ignorance before the full revelation of His will appeared [in Jesus Christ]. Yet the ignorance should not have been so great as it actually was, for the way in which God ordered the seasons, so as to give food to all flesh, ought to have made men mindful of Him and of His claims upon their worship. In Rom. 1:19* Paul also emphasizes that if men had paid heed to the works of God in creation, they might even in them have found tokens of His “everlasting power and divinity”.

*…since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. (Romans 1: 19-20)

I am posting a final quote from Shawn Bolz's book relevant to points I make in my books and blogs for our good and God’s glory:

“…we are all given access to the will of God and connection to God through the Holy Spirit. Jesus restored our connection with God! We no longer need a proxy through which we commune with our loving Creator. Jesus built a bridge that crosses the chasm of our sin to connect us directly with the Father’s love….We now have Jesus and His Spirit of truth, revelation, wisdom, and knowledge living inside of us.”

Shawn Bolz has authored a book on modern prophecy, on hearing God’s voice. God restored our capacity to interact with the voice of God by His grace through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. Hearing from the indwelling Holy Spirit is the major focus of my books and my blogs on this website. It is a dualist interaction actualized in our time via the neural synaptic networks of the human brain. I wish to share several quotations from his book, Modern Prophets: A Toolkit for Everyone on Hearing God’s Voice , which parallel points I have made in these forums.

Nothing in our Christian experience is quite as wonderful as getting to know God and hearing His heart in real time. The God of all the universe wired us on an intellectual, neurological, biological, emotional and, of course, spiritual level to hear from him and to know Him. As we pursue Him through His Word, we will have experiences with Him. These experiences always confirm His nature, His Word, and His will.

God is a relator. He made you for connection and His strongest desire is for relationship with you! He cares about every aspect of His creation, and through His Spirit, He is restoring His original plan and design to humanity. This can only truly happen, though, if we hear Him!

What is in the heart of God is made possible through HIs voice. An awesome thing about God’s voice is that His children recognize it: “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” (John 10:27, NKJV)

In Jesus Christ we have faith in the incarnate, crucified and risen God. In the incarnation we learn of the love of God for His creation; in the crucifixion we learn of the judgment of God upon all flesh; and in the resurrection we learn of God’s will for a new world. There could be no greater error than to tear these three elements apart; for each of them comprise the whole. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

From Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

Man at his origin knows only one thing: God. It is only in the unity of his knowledge of God that he knows of other men, of things, and of himself. He knows all things only in God, and God in all things. The knowledge of good and evil shows that he is no longer at one with this origin….The knowledge of good and evil is … separation from God. Only against God can man know good and evil….In the knowledge of good and evil man does not understand himself in the reality of the destiny appointed in his origin, but rather in his own possibilities, his possibility of being good or evil. He knows himself … as something apart from God, outside God.