What is a medium?

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The Holy Spirit is defined by Jesus as a medium:

Joh 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

In this statement the word "wind" and "Spirit" is the same Greek word.

Wind is the movement of air, but the air is just a fluid of air molecules moving randomly about.

The thing we call "wind" is the movement of hot air relative to cold air, as a collective motion from one temperature gradient to another temperature gradient. Therefore "wind" is technically a "medium affect". But this notion is not made of matter, "wind" is not "air", "wind" is the movement of kinetic energy within the air. The air only carries this kinetic energy in a certain direction, and this affect we term "wind". However Science does not talk about mediums such as wind in this way.

This is one of the problems why Ellen White says silence is golden. There is nothing in Science on the Internet regarding the word "medium".


What is the scientific definition of medium?
A substance that makes possible the transfer of energy from one location to another, especially through waves.

This I found on the Internet. Does it make sense to a simple layperson like myself?

No, first of all a "medium" is not a substance, like "matter" is a "substance". A medium is a concept explaining how "energy is carried from one location to another location".

So in simple terms a medium is something that carries something.

There is nothing mentioned as wind being a medium using air as the media, in Science or on the Internet.

However, the Internet lists air as a media that can become a medium for sound.


Now Ellen White says the nature of the Holy Spirit is a mystery, and silence is golden.


EGW: "The nature of the Holy Spirit is a mystery. Men cannot explain it, because the Lord has not revealed it to them. Men having fanciful views may bring together passages of Scripture and put a human construction on them, but the acceptance of these views will not strengthen the church. Regarding such mysteries, which are too deep for human understanding, silence is golden. {AA 52.1}

So why does our Church speak of the Holy Spirit as a "he" ? when silence is golden?

Mrs White does use the term "medium"

What constitutes the sin against the Holy Ghost? It is willfully attributing to Satan the work of the Holy Spirit. For example, suppose that one is a witness of the special work of the Spirit of God. He has convincing evidence that the work is in harmony with the Scriptures, and the Spirit witnesses with his spirit that it is of God. Afterward, however, he falls under temptation; pride, self-sufficiency, or some other evil trait, controls him; and rejecting all the evidence of its divine character, he declares that that which he had before acknowledged to be the power of the Holy Spirit was the power of Satan. It is through the medium of His Spirit that God works upon the human heart; and when men willfully reject the Spirit and declare it to be from Satan, they cut off the channel by which God can communicate with them. By denying the evidence which God has been pleased to give them, they shut out the light which had been shining in their hearts, and as the result they are left in darkness. Thus the words of Christ are verified: “If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” Matthew 6:23. For a time, persons who have committed this sin may appear to be children of God; but when circumstances arise to develop character and show what manner of spirit they are of, it will be found that they are on the enemy’s ground, standing under his black banner.92 {CCh 81.1}

Can anybody explain to me what this passage is talking about?

and the Spirit witnesses with his spirit What does this phrase mean? The Bible word for spirit is the same for these two uses of spirit, so how does the Holy Spirit witness to his Holy Spirit, is this a problem in translation? In the Genesis account there are two Hebrew words used together for one idea, so the phrase should read

and the Spirit (ruwach) witnesses with his spirit (nashamah) - Now I understand. Do readers catch this idea ? The Holy Spirit imparts a part of GOD unto you as you, termed your spirit. And this is conveyed by the word "nashamah".

The Bible use of this phrase is here:

Ge 7:22 All in whose nostrils <'aph> was the breath <n@shamah> <ruwach> of life <chay>,

Notice there are two Hebrew words written for "breath" not one,

Notice many translations:

Ge 7:22 (KJV) All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.

Ge 7:22 (ASV) all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

Ge 7:22 (BBE) Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

Ge 7:22 (DBY) everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry [land], died.

Ge 7:22 (MKJV) all who breathed the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry land, died.

Ge 7:22 (NKJV) All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of the spirit of life, all that [was] on the dry [land], died.

Ge 7:22 (RSV) everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

Ge 7:22 (WEB) All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

Ge 7:22 (YLT) all in whose nostrils [is] breath of a living spirit--of all that [is] in the dry land--have died.

Notice some translation's do translate both Hebrew words, some don't.

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God is love. The love of the Father and the Son is an attribute of every believer. The Word of God is the channel through which divine love is communicated to man. God’s truth is the medium by which the intellect is reached. The Holy Spirit is given to the human agent who works in cooperation with divine agencies. It transforms mind and character, enabling man to endure as seeing Him who is invisible. Perfect love can be enjoyed only through the belief of the truth and the reception of the Holy Spirit.... {OFC 294.2}


I marvel that professing Christians do not grasp the divine resources; that they do not see the cross more clearly as the medium of forgiveness and pardon, the means of bringing the proud, selfish heart of man into direct contact with the Holy Spirit, that the riches of Christ may be poured into the mind, and the human agent be adorned with the graces of the Spirit, that Christ may be commended to those who know Him not.17 {OFC 302.

Three and a half years of public ministry was all that the world could bear of the Son of God. Then they crucified Him. The heavenly vine was taken and transplanted on the other side of the wall. But the heavenly boughs hang over this side of the wall. Christ is still with us in his representative, the Holy Spirit. Through this medium communication is kept up between heaven and earth, between God and man. And we must be careful not to destroy this communication, lest we be overcome. {EA 154.5


God alone can impart the Holy Spirit, making it a transforming power unto the saving of the soul. Faith is termed the gift of God, and God opens the heart to receive the Word. The Holy Spirit of God produces its effect through the medium of truth. Jesus prayed for His disciples, “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” [Verse 17.] {Lt12-1894.}


Rob: So what does a medium do? It carries something divine in other somethings made of matter, such as humans.

The function of the Holy Spirit is a mystery and silence is golden.

Sadly our Church ignorantly states the Holy Spirit is a "he" whether that means?

Some movements also say the Holy Spirit, is a force? Hmm? Well passive mediums exist in the world,
for example sound is carried by the medium of matter such as air, wood or metal.
for example light is refracted by the boundaries of air and water. and this is a medium affect.

But there are also examples of active administrators of medium affects.

For example:

1Sa 28:7 ¶ Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.

Here the woman functions as an administrator for the familiar spirit to talk to humans, about people who are dead, that are assumed can talk like being alive again.

The Bible terms this medium affect an abomination, BUT is clearly how the Opposer sees God and his function, and thus counterfeit God's function with a Satanic function of his own.

Here is an example of a Divine Administrator using the medium.

Job 33:4 The Spirit of God hath made me, 

and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

It is written as a poetry parallel.

The Holy Spirit of Strong Authority do "things in" me,

The breathing of the Shadday gives me "ongoing living".

So the medium that does thing in me, is Administrated by the Shadday.

So the Medium is an active medium regulated and administrated by the Shadday.

Who is the Shadday?

First the term in Hebrew is a masculine grammar case word.

In Ancient Hebrew the pictures of this word are "pressing to the door with active hands"

Ge 49:25  This verse does not make "ab" mean the "heavenly Father"? Why not?

Notice the way I see this verse

Ge 49:25 Even by the "Strong Authority" of thy "Heavenly Father", who shall help thee; and by the "Shadday" who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts (in Hebrew: shad), and of the "compassion-centre":

By leaving out "heavenly Father" and making Shadday mean "Almighty Father" the whole verse is skewed.

Ge 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

The Shadday expresses feminine love attributes, with "shad" and "compassion-centre"

Nu 24:16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Shadday, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

This verse is important because it identifies the vision experience as a power of the Holy Spirit, a medium function of the Shadday

{LS 468.3} "In December, 1844, the Holy Spirit gave her a revelation of the second coming of Christ. In this vision of the future there was given a view of the glorious reward that awaits the redeemed and the terrible fate that will come to all who refuse to serve their Lord and Master.

For more see : spiritualsprings.org/ss-1407.htm

Shalom

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Many years ago when a false movement broke away from the Seventh Day Adventist Church, became established with a strange doctrine concerning the Godhead as an elohiym power.

We published some material to Dr Peterson in those days, who was in charge of new light that SDA member may have regarding the Church, and its development.

Here is what the Department within the Church said regarding our studies on this topic:


The Shadday : A Name for the Holy Spirit?

Evaluation of a theory

It has been suggested that the name or designation for God "Shadday" is a reference to the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Godhead. In order to investigate and assess such a theory, the following questions are raised:

1. Does any of the actual occurrences of the term in the Old Testament explicitly point to or mention the Holy Spirit?

To substantiate the claim it would be expected that the link is very clear in a fair number of the texts.

2. Does any of the many references to the Holy Spirit in the New Testament where the role and function of the third person of the Godhead is more fully explained by Jesus and the apostles, refer to "Shadday" or to a term or concepts which naturally are understood as pointing to this Old Testament, Hebrew name for God?

Once again, to substantiate the claim and establish the theory, it would be expected that such a link is clear and explicit in a number of texts.

Procedure

In the process of assessing the theory, I have asked a present lecturer in Old Testament studies, expert in biblical languages and competent SDA theologian to read through the material independent of me, in order not to evaluate the theory single-handed. This scholar has given a large number of specific comments on the biblical texts and written them into the electronic manuscript received. The conclusions listed below form a consensus position.

Further, the following studies have been made (see attached files):

Occurrences of "Shadday" in the Old Testament

OT texts with "Shadday" in Greek: Septuagint and NT usage

Pantokrator in LXX

Pantokrator in the New Testament

Ellen White's use of "Shadday" and of translated OT texts where the name occurs in Hebrew

Conclusion

As the attached files show, the theory has been investigated from a number of angles. All occurrences of "Shadday" in the Old Testament have been studied. The Old Greek translations of these texts have been studied. All occurrences of the Greek word "pantokrator" both in Septuagint and in the New Testament have been studied.

The investigation leads to a very clear and consistent answer to the questions raised and the theory presented:

There is not even one single text of the Bible to suggest such an identification of "Shadday" with the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Godhead. It is not a question of whether there are some texts which can be understood that way. The link is simply totally absent from the Holy Scriptures.

The conclusion is, therefore, self-evident. The theory is nothing but speculation. It has no biblical foundation whatsoever.

For the sake of completion an evaluation has also been made of possible references by Ellen G. White. Statements from her pen have no authority in establishing biblical doctrines, yet may provide valuable biblical insight which we would otherwise have missed. The conclusion based on her writings is fully in line with the conclusions arrived from the biblical material. She never ever mentions the term "Shadday"; the biblical texts in which the term occurs are never used by her to refer to the Holy Spirit in specific; and the term "pantokrator" or "Almighty" is not once used in a way that would give any indication that the third person of the Godhead should be specifically in her mind.

Further Comments

The author of the theory deserves praise for his willingness to wrestle with the Biblical texts, and also for his support of the Biblical teaching of the Trinity to which the Seventh-day Adventist Church adheres.

The eagerness to defend this position seems, however, to result in lack of careful reading of the texts, misunderstanding of grammar, and misappropriation of theological concepts. Such procedure is not needed. The heresies of, for instance, the group calling itself the Restitution Ministry, have been refuted on clear Biblical grounds. The theory proposed about "Shadday", besides having no biblical foundation, is completely unnecessary. Further, some of the ideas used to support the theory tend toward classical pagan heresies, such as regarding the Holy Spirit as the "mother" and another parent of Jesus. And there is absolutely no reason, with a biblical understanding of the concept of "Fatherhood" and "Sonship" to regard this terminology as "semi-Arian".

Notice the Department suggests there should be a larger number of verses on this topic and the topic should be clearly known by others supporters of God.

Question: How many Bible texts are there on the subject of faith in the OT?

One major one: Hab 2:4 ...the just shall live by his faith.

Question: How many Bible texts are there concerning the third coming of Jesus to the earth to finish salvation for humans?

One verse: Zec 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,..

Question: How many Bible texts on the Sunday day of worship?

One verse: Eze 8:16 ... and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

Question: How many verses on the shaking of the Church?

Four verses?:

Isa 17:6 .., as the shaking of an olive tree,

Isa 19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

Eze 38:19.. a great shaking in the land of Israel;

Na 3:12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

Do these verses clearly speak of a shaking of the Church? Hmm?

Question: How many verses define salvation as a process?

One passage: Ho 14:1 ¶ O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

Question: How many verses speak of Jacob's trouble?

One verse : Jer 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. (KJV)

Question: How many verses explain being born again of the HS ?

One passage: Ps 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me

Question: How many verses speak of the HS as a her?

One verse: Ho 4:19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings,..

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Try this 60 second experiment

youtu.be/PTelAW-QYVI

Here is a picture of me confirming the medium affect:

It took a while to get the affect, move the image further away to the curved glass. This causes the arrow under the water to switch directions. Why does it happen? It is a medium affect.

Light carried by the air, and the water, are refracted and reflected to change the image that is perceived by the viewer.

Notice this was taken from the Internet"

What are the mediums in science?
A medium in physics is a material that moves energy or light from one substance to another, or from one location to another, or from one surface to another. In this case, the medium serves as a carrier. Any type of energy, including sound waves, light, and heat, can be transferred through the medium.

It's a GREAT find, as Science does not discuss medium affects very well.

Notice the Holy Spirit functions as a medium and serves as a carrier of the Father's power or the Son's salvation power in humans.

For more : spiritualsprings.org/ss-1384.htm

Shalom