The divinity of the Holy Spirit was infallibly defined at the First Council of Constantinople in A.D. 381, but not everyone accepts the fact that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person–one of the three Persons of the Blessed Trinity.
For example, Jehovah’s Witnesses claim that the Holy Spirit is merely God’s “energy” or “active force.”
In this video, Jimmy Akin shows a simple and surprising way that you can use the Bible to show both that the Holy Spirit is a Person and that he is a divine Person, alongside the Father and the Son.
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I don’t understand the point of this video. Mr. Akin opens by saying “the divinity of the Holy Spirit was infallibly defined at the First Council of Constantinople in A.D. 381” but the rest of the video explains how the divinity of the Holy Spirit was defined <i>in the Bible</i>.
The act of infallibly defining something is different than the act of teaching it.
The Bible *teaches* the divinity of the Holy Spirit, and the council *defined* that this teaching is part of the Christian faith.
Think of it like this:
THE BIBLE: The Holy Spirit is God.
THE COUNCIL: And that’s a mandatory part of the Christian faith. Don’t try to take the Bible as saying something else.