dr. pinkham refers to the holism of the trinity. I include these excerpts that will give definition to this description:

“the nature of the trinity is relational and holistic. the trinity focuses inward with the relationships between the three members. the trinity focuses outward with the inclusion of humaNITY. THE TRINITY FOCUSES UPWARD WITH THEIR SHARED SUMMIT OF GLORY. AND THE TRINITY FOCUSES DOWNWARD WITH THE OFFER OF SALVATION TO THE WORLD. . . . WE MUST LEARN TO THINK HOLISTICALLY ABOUT CHRISTIANITY AND ATTEMPT TO SEE THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF GOD’S DYNAMIC ACTIVITY IN HUMAN LIFE. FURTHER, WE MUST VIEW THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS AS BEING PERSONAL AND RELATIONAL, NOT JUST THEORETICAL.”

dickson is cited who “insists that ‘the spirit’s role has always been the medium of the communion between the father and the son and now also is the medium between christians and christ, drawing them into his presence and working in their lives to make them reflect god’s glory and dignity.’”

this is an interactive, bidirectional relationship that is active in our time. thanks to advances in neuroscience technology, we are becoming aware of the means by which this interaction takes place between the mind of god and the mind of man mediated by the holy spirit.

i am reading the latest book by dr. hugh ross, founder of the now global ministry, reasons to believe (www.reasons.org). its title is rescuing inerrancy: a scientific defense, RTB press, covina, ca, 2023. i wish to share excerpts from chapter 11 that are relevant to what i am sharing in my blog posts concerning the personal interaction between the holy spirit and the spirit and mind/soul of mankind:

“the 39 human writers of the bible’s 66 books understood that the holy spirit was the guiding voice behind everything they wrote. in many biblical passages, the human authors explicitly declared that what they were writing was inspired by god himself. the phrase ‘thus says the lord’ appears 427 times in the old testament. . . . the apostle paul assures the early christians, ‘all scripture is god-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness’ (2 timothy 3:16), and the apostle peter affirmed that ‘prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from god as they were carried along by the holy spirit’ (2 peter 1:21). . . . the bible’s redemptive theme is sustained by the record of nature. that god began his work of redemption before he created anything implies that all of nature is designed to make possible not only the existence but also the redemption of a vast host of humans. [the neural synaptic networks of the human brain have been so designed by god to provide a personal means for counsel and redemption.] . . . the holy spirit knows the meaning of what has been written and promises to guide us toward ever-deeper understanding. he uses genre and prayerfuly discerned interpretive principles to help us today [bold type added], just as he helped ancient peoples of the world and will help future generations.”

in the book of hebrews are verses which we can better understand as to process from the information presented in my books and in a number of my blogs:

the holy spirit also testifies to us about this. first he says: this is the covenant i will make with them after that time, says the lord. i will put my laws in their hearts, and i will write them on their minds. (heb 10:15-16)

it is my hope that i have presented compelling evidence for dualist interaction between the holy spirit and the human spirit and soul. the holy spirit has the power and will to establish neural codes within the human synaptic networks, manifested as “laws” in the “hearts” and “minds.” Yes, we can communicate directly with the Holy spirit via prayer, and we can also receive communications directly from him in our time, including those within the human conscience.

i have selected two topics from my more than 600 blog posts that i believe are vital for christians to understand, information, just completed, and the holy spirit to come. my blogs have addressed both topics extensively, but i hope that my posting these topics in a concentrated format will be helpful to the readers. it is unfortunate that too many churches fail to teach the holy spirit. it was my own experience in my early church years. it was the focus in my second book, the boundless love of god: a holy spirit story.

I am concluding my series of blog posts dealing with information and give credit to William A. Dembski for most of the content I have shared. I trust I have succeeded in explaining information, showing just how important it is to science, to theology and to our very existence. moreover, i trust that i have succeeded in identifying the ultimate source of all information that has been actualized in all of that which has been created and is sustained to this day, God. does the reader now understand better just how majestic, powerful, intelligent, rational, personal and loving the biblical god is? we must do our best to keep our concept of god from being too small!

Dembski argues in Chapter 20, “The Creation of Information,” that “intelligence is the ultimate source of information, . . . I come at this question as a Christian for whom God, as creator, is the ultimate source of all there is, and thus of all the information in the world. My model for information creation, therefore, cannot be bottom up, as in trying to reconstitute information from material processes, but rather must be top down, as in trying to understand the creation of information from the vantage of a creative intelligence (in particular, the Christian God).”

We have read posts that deal with intelligence, information and matter, but what about energy? Dembski addresses the topic of energy in the following excerpts:

“Information changes dynamically, with information passing in, through, and out of matter. . . . Anything that exhibits information needed at some point to be imparted with information. What causes information to undergo such dynamic transformation? The usual answer to this question is stated in one word: energy. . . . energy is logically downstream from information in the sense that energy is always inferred from information, but not vice versa. . . . Energy . . . seems unavoidable in discussions about the dynamics of information. . . . When information happens - and it happens all the time - what causes it to happen? . . . energy is as good an answer as exists. This answer makes energy the causal glue that connects diverse items of information in an informational universe.”

Dembski specifically mentions an immaterial energy in this context, and I have addressed such energy in blog posts that discuss the role of wave forms in the transmission of linguistic neural codes through synaptic networks by the process of quantum tunneling.

“The expression ‘effected spoken word’ . . . means this: an agent, in forming an intention [a thought of a cognitive mind], accomplishes it by first articulating the intention as a word [for example, the linguistic neural code I have discussed in my books and in many blogs], then transmitting that word through a speech act [for example, the transmission of neural codes through synchronous synaptic networks], and finally ensuring that this spoken word achieves its desired effect [the action end point that completes the definition of information, as discussed by Werner Gitt]. . . . When the agent is God intent on creating a world, creation likewise becomes an effected spoken word. Compare Isaiah 55:11, God speaking, ‘So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.’” (William A. Dembski)

Dembski asks a challenging and important question, “. . . what is more real, material objects or the information characteristic of material objects? I would say the information. . . . We live, move and have our being inside a matrix of information. We have no way of getting outside that matrix. Moreover, according to the Judeo-Christian account of creation, there may be no outside. If creation is, as this religious tradition teaches, an effected word spoken by God, then creation itself is a primal informational act. Moreover, the outworking of this creation in all its details will then be a series of echoes stemming from that primal act. Given such an account of creation, the search for a substratum of reality more basic than information would be futile.”

Dembski’s comments speak to the reality that the ultimate source of information is a mind, in this case the Mind of God.