SOFIA: THE HOLY SPIRIT
(The Feminine Person in the Holy Trinity)
I had wondered at an early age about God and how to get to know God better. When I discovered through going to Mass that God was made up of three separate Persons called "The Trinity" I knew I could then hope to get to know God personally. I knew something about Jehovah, God the Father, and a bit more about Jesus Christ, God the Son, but when it came to God The Holy Spirit that's where the confusion came in. I began hearing that the Person of the Holy Spirit was also considered to be a "He" in New Testament Theology. So The Father is a He... Jesus is a He... and the Holy Spirit is a He..? So God is three guys in Heaven..? That sounded a bit queer to me so I had to look a bit further and found the Truth about the identity of The Holy Spirit which I share with you here.
Absolute, undeniable proof from Scripture Manuscripts that The Holy Spirit is the Feminine Person of The Trinity.
THE HOLY SPIRIT has been called a HE instead of SHE because of the way scholars have mistranslated the Manuscripts of Old mainly because men's vanity did not want this revealed, nor does satan...
There are profound metaphors of God as feminine in the Hebrew Old Testament. On occasion this poetic imagery is allegorized literally as female; most often the feminine appears in the Hebrew Bible. In later Jewish writings in the Midrashim, or stories, the Shekhinah, or Divine Presence, is depicted literally in female form. God is described in both masculine and feminine imagery in the opening verses of Genesis. God (a masculine noun) creates by his Word, and life begins as the spirit (a feminine noun) of God hovers over the earth with her life-giving breath. The feminine imagery is integral to the original Hebrew concept of God. The word image of Elohim also incorporated the feminine as a noun concept, the Ruach Elohim. This God was a plurality of oneness, the one including the many, the masculine and feminine combined, the two in one. Then in the Wisdom Literature, including Proverbs and the Apocryphal Books of Wisdom and Sirach, the Holy Spirit of God was identified as Lady Wisdom. (Prov. 1:20-22; 8:1-9:6; Wis. 1:6-7, 6:22-25). Male and female are in the image and likeness of God (Gen. 1:26-27). Wisdom is identified as "She" in the Protestant Book of Proverbs (8:24). The Holy Spirit is identified with the feminine spirit of Wisdom in the Catholic Apocrypha. Every occurrence of "The Spirit of Yahweh" in Judges is feminine. As I pondered that, I recalled Genesis 1:2, the first occurrence of "The Spirit of God" in the Bible, and realized to my surprise that it too is feminine. Finally, a feminine Holy Spirit, with a Father and Son as the rest of the Trinity, helps to explain why "the family" is the basic unit of human society and without a Mother or the Female Personage
there can be no family...
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