and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: to
another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one
Spirit; and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to
another discernings of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; and to
another the interpretation of tongues: but all these worketh the one and the
same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will.'
Here among other things we notice that prophecy and the power of working
miracles are said to be bestowed by God's Holy Spirit. Surely then the Holy
Spirit must Himself be possessed of Deity.
Again we read in the same epistle:
'Things 1 which eye saw not, and ear heard not,
And which entered not into the heart of man,
Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.
But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth
all things, yea, the deep things of God. For who among men knoweth the things of
a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so the things of God
none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.'
' Here it is clearly taught that God's Holy Spirit is omniscient, which is
distinctly a divine attribute and therefore -cannot be possessed by any
creature. It is because He teaches God's true servants and leads
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